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Blurb: “"Drawing successfully on a wide range of sources, David Clay Large's Berlin gives a vivid picture of a city alternating between dynamic growth and destruction, including views of its politics and culture, its urban landscape and its international setting. Admirably broad and informative." —FRITZ STERN, Columbia University
"David Clay Large has written a vivid and compelling history of the city which was in many ways the fulcrum of the twentieth century. From German unification in 1871 to reunification in 1989, he captures the extraordinary vitality of the city and inimitable black humour of the Berliners. As Large leads you down those vice-ridden, history-strewn streets, you can almost smell the intoxicating—in both senses—'Berliner Luft'." —NIALL FERGUSON,
Oxford University
"David Large's history of Berlin provides the reader with a critical and even-handed analysis of its changing existences throughout recent history: a famed center of modernity, a symbol of injustice and abuse of power, a riven and ambivalent capital of the Cold War.
The author also gives a sympathetic assessment of the city's chances of embodying hope for a future of democracy and progress. Large's ability to summon the physical appearance and feel of this vibrant capital its streets and railway stations and hotels and nightclubs and department stores—is remarkable. As in his Munich book, Large demonstrates in Berlin that he is as good a raconteur as he is a historian." -GORDON A. CRAIG, Stanford University
"There are several good books on modern Berlin, but none I know has quite the authority and flair of David Clay Large's Berlin. The text gives the impression-justly so—that one can trust the author's judgments. It shows not only an intimate acquaintance with the literature but with the city as well, and it speaks with equal felicity about politics and art, antiSemitism and democratic forces." —PETER GAY, Director, Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library
"This book is an absorbing, penetrating, and—in the best sense of the word
—entertaining
exploration of Berlin's turbulent modern history. Both novice and specialist will learn much from it-and be delighted by the author's wide-ranging knowledge and stylistic gifts."
—PETER HAYES, Professor of History, Northwestern University
"A metropolis of astonishing subversion, horror and ingenuity, a capital of ideological experimentation, racial injustice and democratic new beginnings, Berlin is the audacious, craved city of modern times, and David Clay Large the star reporter at its city desk."
—PETER FRITZSCHE, Professor of History, University of Illinois”