Introduction, by Philip BoehmA Note on the Text--Letters to MilenaAppendices:Milena Jesenská's Letters to Max BrodFour Essays by Milena Jesenská: 'Vienna', 'Letters of Notable People', 'A Dream', and 'The Devil at the Hearth'Milena Jesenská's Obituary for Franz KafkaNotes
I am not sure that any review I write can do this book justice. I listened to the NPR review and it was explained that the author had spent decades studying the psychological effects of the Holocaust on survivors. This necessitated the interviewing of many people and one person told her not to forge...
I've read a lot of historical fiction and non-fiction set in World War II, but A Woman in Berlin is my first book written from the perspective of a German woman during the fall of Berlin. Written in diary form by an author who asked her publishers to keep her identity secret until after her death, i...
I've read a lot of historical fiction and non-fiction set in World War II, but A Woman in Berlin is my first book written from the perspective of a German woman during the fall of Berlin. Written in diary form by an author who asked her publishers to keep her identity secret until after her death, ...
I think everybody should read this book. When I began it I warned others that it is about rape in wartime. And that is true. Any subject in a good author’s hands can be worth reading. It is the ability of the author to make that subject comprehensible to readers that distinguishes a good author. We ...
When I'm feeling a smug or happy - I read a few pages, brings me down to earth with a bump