Mckay Bergin (2 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Large folded sheet consisting of a geologic map, a cross-section, correlation of map units, a columnar section with description of units, discussion of economic geology, and references cited; in printed envelope; ex-corporate library; in very good condition. Map.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Grom, Rob (jacket design); Boethling, Joerg (jacket art); Bergin, Liam (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with blue spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by Sinclair McKay; List of Illustrations; Picture Credits; Maps; Preface: 'Every City Has History, But Berlin Has Too Much!'; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Notes and Index. Illustrated with three sections of black-and-white photographic plates and a section of black-and-white maps. A small remainder dot at the upper page edge. "Great subject, well researched, brilliantly written. Anyone who wants to understand Berlin's incomparable place at the very center of twentieth-century history should begin with Sinclair McKay's remarkable, mesmerizing book." - Keith Lowe, author. "McKay's powerful imagery and magnetic prose combine to produce an electrifying new account of Berlin. 'You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin,' claims the author. He makes a compelling case." - Julia Boyd, author. "Powerful. Visceral. Truly revelatory. Beautifully written and utterly compelling. I didn't think Sinclair McKay could top his previous book, which was masterful. He has proven me wrong with Berlin." - Damien Lewis, author. "Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the center of a convulsing world. Sinclair McKay begins his chronicle of the city in 1919, as Berlin emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary byword for modernity - in art, cinema, architecture, industry, science, and politics. He then traces the city's history through the rise of Hitler and the battle for Berlin that ended in the final conquest of the city in 1945. It was a key moment in modern world history, and beyond all the global repercussions lay thousands of individual stories of agony, from the countless women who endured nightmare ordeals at the hands of the Soviet soldiers to the teenage boys fitted with steel helmets too big for their heads and guns too big for their hands. McKay thrusts readers into the human cataclysm that tore down the modernity of the streets and reduced what was once the most sophisticated city on earth to ruins - and then in the years afterward led to Berlin being rent in two by competing superpowers, with the vast, grim wall built in 1961 becoming part of the landscape of the world. Amid the destruction a collective instinct was also at work - a determination to restore not just the rhythms of urban life but also its fierce creativity. In Berlin today there is a growing and urgent recognition that the testimonies of the ordinary citizens from 1919 forward should be given more prominence. That the housewives, office clerks, factory workers, and exuberant teenagers who witnessed these years of terrifying - and, for some, initially exhilarating - transformation should be heard. Today, the exciting, youthful Berlin we see is patterned with echoes that lean back into that terrible vortex. In this new history of Berlin, Sincalir McKay erases the lines between the generations of Berliners, making their voices heard again to create a compelling, living portrait. You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berln, and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. McKay's latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.