A Woman In Berlin

An extraordinary wartime memoir

Anonymous Author, Antony Beevor

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Virago
25 October 2011

Autobiography: general; Fiction & Literature

Series: Virago Modern Classics

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.

By: Anonymous Author
Introduction by: Antony Beevor
Imprint: Virago
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781844087976
ISBN 10: 1844087972
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 25 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author, now dead, is thought to have been a journalist or publisher.

Reviews for A Woman In Berlin: An extraordinary wartime memoir

It's not a book, it's a poem, an epic poem... Exemplary -- Jameela Saddiqi A most extraordinary war journal -- Susan Jeffreys 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 One of the most powerful books I've ever read...the best money you'll ever spend -- Kate Mosse