A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Marta Hillers

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

Marta Hillers with Philip Boehm (Translator), Isabel Keating (Narrator)

nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

10 hours, 25 minutes | first published 1953

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), ...
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emotional 69%
informative 63%
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hopeful 6%

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fast 21%

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