A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous wreaths and more

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but it also waits

in On the Roof he goes in search of its history and future

This has taken almost a year of research and writing and has driven me to drink

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A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous wreaths and moreBetween April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling city as it was sacked by the Russian Army. Fending off the boredom and deprivation of hiding, the author records her experiences, observations and meditations in this stark and vivid diary. Accounts of the bombing, the rapes, the rationing of food and the overwhelming terror of death are rendered in the dispassionate, though