She vividly evokes the civilians trapped in Berlin and deprived of meaningful news. They know only that information from the western front, where the Americans have just reached the Elbe, is by then irrelevant. “Our fate is rolling in from the East,” she writes.
— from the Introduction, by Antony Beevor
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
December 25, 2021 at 12:37 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, Memoirs, Recommended, Women Writers)
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