{"product_id":"berlin-the-story-of-a-city","title":"Berlin: The Story of a City","description":"\u003cb\u003e'An impressively clear and engaging biography of a fascinating city at the very centre of European history' Antony Beevor\u003cbr\u003e 'My only complaint is that it was so fascinating I wish it had been longer. What a story!' Philip Mansel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTelling the story of its people and its rulers, from its medieval origins up to the present day, \u003ci\u003eBerlin\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and informative history of an extraordinary city from the author of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003ePartition\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Berlin is \u003cb\u003eEurope’s most fascinating and exciting city\u003c\/b\u003e. It is and always has been a city on the edge – geographically, culturally, politically and morally. The great movements that have shaken Europe, from the Reformation to Marxism have their origins in Berlin’s streets. The long-time \u003cb\u003ecapital of Prussia\u003c\/b\u003e and of the Hohenzollern dynasty it has never, paradoxically, been a Prussian city. Instead it has always been a city of immigrants, a city that accepts everyone and turns them into Berliners. A typical Berliner, it is said, is someone who has just arrived at the railway station.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With its unique dialect, exceptional museums, experimental cultural scene, its liberated social life and its open and honest approach to its history, with monuments to \u003cb\u003ethe Holocaust\u003c\/b\u003e as prominent as its rebuilt royal palace, it is as challenging a city as it is absorbing. And it has always been like that, since its medieval foundation as twin fishing villages. Too often Berlin is seen through \u003cb\u003ethe prism of Nazism\u003c\/b\u003e and its role on the front line in \u003cb\u003ethe Cold War\u003c\/b\u003e. Important, frightening and interesting as those periods are, its history starts much further ago than that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs approachable for the casual visitor to Berlin as it is informative for those who enjoy reading history, \u003ci\u003eBerlin: The Story of a City \u003c\/i\u003eis as fascinating as its subject.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46068312998079,"sku":"9781471181542","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/86363-0159bb3e0d5caf8a2507185997591539088fe3c7057962501b02963232f37885.jpg?v=1787350647","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/berlin-the-story-of-a-city","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}