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A Woman In Berlin
- Author
- Anonymous
- Narrator
- Diana Bishop
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 4 November 2010
- Run Time
- 9 hours 52 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Critics Review
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This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every woman ought to read it
Arundhati Roy
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One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat
Antony Beevor
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This is not an hysterical woman ... you simply cannot dismiss it ... profoundly, acutely embarrassing ... an insight into the resilience of people in an unknowable situation
Robert Sandhill
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Complex, closely observed diary by a woman living in conquered Berlin at the end of WWII
Kirkus Reviews
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Let Anonymous stand witness as she wished to: as an undistorted voice for all women in war and its aftermath, whatever their names or nation or ethnicity. Anywhere
Los Angeles Times
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An astonishing record of survival . . . the voice of Anonymous emerges as both shrewd and funny . . . a fresh contribution to the literature of war
Entertainment Weekly
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A stunning account of a German woman's battle to survive repeated rape at the hands of the victors among the ruins of Berlin . . . While leaders plot their dreams of glory and victory, the lives of ordinary people--on all sides--are trampled and destroyed. A most salutary work
Guardian
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The author has a fierce, uncompromising voice, and her book should become a classic of war literature
Publishers Weekly
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Marvelous . . . As it is a human instinct to survive, this book, which could have been horrifying, is instead exhilarating: a rare tribute to the human spirit
Daily Mail
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Coolly written, tearingly honest . . . This is a classic not only of war literature but also of writing at the very extreme of human suffering
Daily Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Anonymous
- Narrator
- Diana Bishop
- Duration
- 9 hours 52 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 November 2010
- ISBN
- 9781405509527
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Biography: general, European history, Second World War, Autobiography: general, Published diaries, letters and journals, True stories / true accounts of events
Synopsis
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.
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