Solo en Berlin / Alone in Berlin

from lynsbro

Chilling. Daily life in Berlin during the Third Reich.Everyone is terrified of being betrayed by everyone else,as "everyone is guilty",according to the Gestapo.If this is what it was like then it does make it possible to understand some of the things that happened. Great evils perpetrated by ordi...

from runner56

Every so often we pick up a book that is truly unputdownable, a book that is so well written, a book that has so much feeling and emotion it lives in the memory for a very long time...Alone in Berlin certainly did that for me. I was attracted firstly to the cover of this book in various books sho...

from CarolynSchroeder

This amazing novel explores the many facets of the human spirit, amidst a collection of German citizens during the height of Gestapo paranoia in Berlin and its surrounding areas. The plot is rather intricate, but basically involves a mild-mannered older couple, Otto and Anna Quangel (he a carpent...

from KarenDuff

This was a keep me reading all night book. The author does a really good job of keeping the tension at just the right level to keep you reading. As this is the fictional telling of real events you know that Otto and Anna will be caught and executed but you really want them to get away with it.

from infjsarah

I struggled with the start of this book - the style of the writing, the criminal and repulsive characters and I didn't want to carry on. However, after a week's break from it I found it picked up a lot particularly when it became just the husband and wife versus the policeman. It's also a horrify...