Berlin : Portrait of a City Through the Centuries (Paperback)

from eglinton

Interesting toopic, clearly approached from an expansive scope, and the photos and the packaging all impress, but somehow the treatment here is a bit dense, so the actual reading of the book drags.

from troymcc

I gave up about half-way through. Each chapter was qualitatively different. It began to feel like the author was being experimental, and I was the guinea pig.

from PennyAnne

I have visited Berlin once, alone, in the deep, deep cold of an icy February and the city fascinated me - vibrant, exuberant, conflicted, beautiful, ugly - a city with a history part of which we all know, peopled by fascinating characters whose lives were 'writ large'. This book follows the histo...

from Dabble58

This is a tour de force of travel writing and quite honestly one of the best books about the history of an area I've had the opportunity to read. Described as the biography of the city of Berlin, it is a fascinating year by year/ person by person story of the tumultuous city that has been overrun...

from Dabble58

This is a tour de force of travel writing and quite honestly one of the best books about the history of an area I've had the opportunity to read. Described as the biography of the city of Berlin, it is a fascinating year by year/ person by person story of the tumultuous city that has been overrun...