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Author	MacLean, Rory, 1954-
Title	Berlin : portrait of a city through the centuries / Rory MacLean.
Publication Info.	New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2014.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	943.1 M	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First U.S. edition.
Description	viii, 421 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note	Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-402) and index.
Contents	Imagine -- Konrad von Cölln , and true love -- Colin Albany and the players -- Frederick the Great, and the making of Prussia -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the dream of a capital -- Lilli Neuss, and the owl -- Walther Rathenau, and lost beauty -- Else Hirsch, and the illusion -- Margarete Böhme, and 'Diary of a lost girl' -- Fritz Haber, and the geography of evil -- Käthe Kollwitz, mother and child -- Christopher Isherwood, in a city of the imagination -- Bertolt Brecht, luck and the epic -- Marlene Dietrich, on becoming -- Leni Riefenstahl, and the fatal flaw -- Albert Speer, and Germania -- Joseph Goebbels, the man who made Hitler -- Dieter Werner, Wall builder -- Bill Harvey, and the tunnel -- John F. Kennedy, and politics as theatre -- David Bowie, and 'Heroes' -- Lieu Van Ha, and the gun -- People, let's dance -- Ilse Philips, in another Berlin -- Imagine Berlin.
Subject	Berlin (Germany) -- History.
	Berlin (Germany) -- Description and travel.
	Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs.
Added Title	Portrait of a city through the centuries
ISBN	9781250051868 (hardcover) :
	125005186X (hardcover)
	9781250052407 (e-book)

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