Berlin: The Biography of a City

Read, Anthony and Fisher, David

ISBN 10: 0712660844 / ISBN 13: 9780712660846

Published by Pimlico, London, 1994

About this Item

First printing of this 8vo paperback edition. Pp viii + 341 + 24pp b&w plates. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Berlin: The Biography of a City
• Publisher: Pimlico, London
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0712660844
• ISBN 13: 9780712660846
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First UK edition.
• Condition: Near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel & Topography

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Synopsis

When President Kennedy proclaimed : Ich bin ein Berliner', he could draw on the strange fascination Berlin has exercised for more than a century on the rest of the world. Read and Fisher have produced the essential guide to Berlin's past, present and future - a fitting companion to their recent success THE FALL OF BERLIN. The authors tell the story of Berlin both through political events and through a vast range of extraordinary personalities: politicians, soldiers and businessmen, artists, writers and performers, and the often bizarre Hohenzollern princes who ruled the city before 1918. Above all, they tell the story of the 'little people' - wave after wave of immigrants transformed into that unique character, the Berliner.

Book Description

A brilliant portrait and history of Berlin by highly acclaimed authors Read and Fisher.