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A Book of the Year
The Times * Sunday Times * Telegraph * New Statesman * Financial Times * Irish Independent * Daily Mail
''A masterpiece''SPECTATOR
''Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write'' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES
''Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here'' TELEGRAPH
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos?
In bombed-out Berlin
