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Nights in Berlin

2016-04-05 Fiction
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Release : 2016-04-05
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Book Rating : 144/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Nights in Berlin by : Janice Law

Download or read book Nights in Berlin written by Janice Law. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lambda Literary Award Finalist: A young Irishman finds love and danger in the shadows of Weimar Germany. Francis Bacon has never cared much for country living, so he is overjoyed when his father sends him to Berlin as punishment for his not-so-innocent flirtations with the other boys at school. With afternoons at the cinema, dinner at the Hotel Adlon, and nights at the most outrageous cabarets in Germany—and in his uncle Lastings’s bed—he’ll fit right in. The Great War having ended over a decade ago, and its resulting economic turmoil in the past, Germany is enjoying the “Golden Twenties”—a time of healthy fiscal growth, and creative and sexual resurgence, centered in Berlin. Yet dark clouds are gathering as Hitler consolidates power within the Nazi Party and brownshirts march through the streets. As tensions rise, Francis finds his uncle Lastings busy welcoming countless men into his hotel room—some invited for pleasure, others to be recruited for the fight against Bolshevism. But when the Nazis send Lastings fleeing for his life, Francis is left alone, penniless, and hunted, with only his keen sense of hedonism to distract him from a city that gets more menacing every night. Nights in Berlin is the 4th book in the Francis Bacon Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Nights in the Big City

2016-04-15 History
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Release : 2016-04-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 190/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Nights in the Big City by : Joachim Schlör

Download or read book Nights in the Big City written by Joachim Schlör. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those who toiled at work and those who caroused in restaurants, pubs, and cafes. Nights in the Big City explores this change and offers a stirring portrait of the secrets and mysteries a city can hold when the sun goes down. Sifting through countless police and church archives alongside first-hand accounts, Schlör sets out on his own explorations with a head full of histories, exploring the boulevards and side-streets of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Bill Brandt and André Kertész, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City is a milestone in the cultural history of the city.

Berlin Nights

2018-11-22 Berlin (Germany)
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Release : 2018-11-22
Genre : Berlin (Germany)
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Book Rating : 411/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Berlin Nights by : Christian Reister

Download or read book Berlin Nights written by Christian Reister. This book was released on 2018-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Reister's black-and-white photographs capture the surreal, threatening and ethereal character of Berlin at night. As an insider the German photographer scans the city for unstaged, unexpected moments and seeks out the strange night-time energy of a place and its people. See Berlin as it comes alive after dark and get lost in the underground scene of a city known for its alternative nightlife.

Nights in the Big City

1998 History
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Release : 1998
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 153/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Nights in the Big City by : Joachim Schlör

Download or read book Nights in the Big City written by Joachim Schlör. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegantly written book describes the changes in the perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin and London. The lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night, in respect of both work and pleasure. Nights in the Big City explores this new awareness of the city in all its ramifications. Joachim Schlor has spent his days sifting through countless police and church archives, and first-hand accounts, and his nights exploring the highways and byways of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Brandt and Kertesz, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City has already been acclaimed in the German press as a milestone in the cultural history of the city. " Schlor] is erudite, and his literary style is alluring." Architect's Journal"

The Berlin Raids

2010-07-12 History
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Release : 2010-07-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 059/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Berlin Raids by : Martin Middlebrook

Download or read book The Berlin Raids written by Martin Middlebrook. This book was released on 2010-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “meticulously documented” account that covers the RAF’s controversial attempt to end World War II by the aerial bombing of Berlin (Kirkus Reviews). The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. Bomber Command Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Harris, hoped to wreak Berlin from end to end and produce a state of devastation in which German surrender was inevitable. He dispatched nineteen major raids between August 1943 and March 1944—more than ten thousand aircraft sorties dropped over thirty thousand tons of bombs on Berlin. It was the RAF’s supreme effort to end the war by aerial bombing. But Berlin was not destroyed and the RAF lost more than six hundred aircraft and their crews. The controversy over whether the Battle of Berlin was a success or failure has continued ever since. Martin Middlebrook brings to this subject considerable experience as a military historian. In preparing his material he collected documents from both sides (many of the German ones never before used); he has also interviewed and corresponded with over four hundred of the people involved in the battle and has made trips to Germany to interview the people of Berlin and Luftwaffe aircrews. He has achieved the difficult task of bringing together both sides of the Battle of Berlin—the bombing force and the people on the ground—to tell a coherent, single story. “His straightforward narrative covers the 19 major raids, with a detailed description of three in particular, and includes recollections by British and German airmen as well as German civilians who weathered the storm.” —Publishers Weekly

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