Berlin, Mary Fullbrook
Berlin, Mary Fullbrook
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Berlin

Author: Mary Fullbrook

Series: Ten Moments That Shaped #1

Narrator: Christa Lewis

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Now capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin rose from insignificant origins on swampy soil, becoming a city of immigrants over the ages. Through a series of ten vignettes, Mary Fulbrook discusses the periods and regimes that shaped its character—whether Prussian militarism; courtly culture and enlightenment; rapid industrialization and expansion; ambitious imperialism; experiments with democracy; or repressive dictatorships of both right and left, dramatically evidenced in the violence of World War and genocide, and then in the Wall dividing Cold War Berlin. This book also presents Berlin's distinctive history as firmly rooted in specific places and sites. Statues and memorials have been erected and demolished, plaques displayed and displaced, and streets named and renamed in recurrent cycles of suppression or resurrection of heroes and remembrance of victims. This vivid and engaging introduction thus reveals Berlin's startling transformations and contested legacies through ten moments from critical points in its multi-layered history.

About Mary Fullbrook

Mary Fulbrook, FBA, is Professor of German History at UCL. Her previous publications include the Wolfson Prize-winning Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (2018) and the Fraenkel Prize-winning A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust (2012). Her mother fled Berlin in the 1930s, and Fulbrook has long been fascinated by the city.

About Christa Lewis

Christa Lewis is a classically trained actress who graduated from Boston University. She got her start in voice acting at the international television station DW-TV and has been a regular on hundreds of cartoons, museum guides, documentaries, and commercials. Now a full-time audiobook narrator with over three hundred titles to her credit, she has earned multiple Earphones Awards, a SOVAS Voice Arts Award, a Sultry Listener’s Award, a Listeners’ Choice Award, and multiple Audie nominations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast on March 18, 2018

An amazing debut. Paul Grant’s debut book is set in Berlin just as the wall is built in 1961 and realistically captures the febrile atmosphere within the city as the political tensions ramp up in both halves of the city. We’re quickly introduced to a variety of characters including American reporter......more

Goodreads review by Fred on November 28, 2017

This is a great book with a compelling story. The characters are well written and go well together. The descriptions of Berlin by the author make the story flow well. This book is a page-turner. I can't wait to read the authors next book.......more

Goodreads review by Eduard on February 02, 2020

On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it b......more

Goodreads review by David on January 24, 2019

Caught in the Mousetrap is the first in a trilogy of stories set in Berlin during the 1960s. It's very well written with an exciting plot and some very interesting characters. East Berlin never felt gloomier. In my own most recent novel, The Summer of '39, the presence of two 16 year old Artful Dodg......more

Goodreads review by Mary on April 27, 2018

I was sceptical about reading a fictional account of this part of history. I knew it would have to be just right or it would feel very wrong. Reading Manchester Military History Society's review allayed those fears somewhat. I really enjoyed this book. I felt empathy for the characters very early on......more

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