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)

261 pages first pub 1953 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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An astonishing find—the landmark journal of a woman living though the Russian occupation of Berlin—which has already earned comparisons to diaries by Etty Hillesum and Victor Klemperer For six weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a...

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dark 80%
emotional 70%
informative 62%
sad 60%
reflective 55%
tense 40%
challenging 32%
inspiring 10%
hopeful 7%
funny 5%

Pace

medium 48%
slow 29%
fast 21%

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