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Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in
Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the
Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author
records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid
diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the
overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though
determinedly optimistic prose of a woman fighting for survival amidst the
horror and inhumanity of war. This diary was first published in America in
1954 in an English translation and in Britain in 1955. A German language
edition was published five years later in Geneva and was met with tremendous
controversy. In 2003, over forty years later, it was republished in Germany to
critical acclaim - and more controversy. This diary has been unavailable since
the 1960s and is now newly translated into English. A Woman in Berlin is an
astonishing and deeply affecting account. Read more