Berlin! Berlin!

Advantages: Germany's capital and most interesting city
Disadvantages: a bit too large, distances too long

...Berlin*, Berlin, Wir fahren nach Berlin! (Berlin, Berlin, We're heading for Berlin!) (pronounced Ber-leen, stress on the second syllable) This slogan has been chanted enthusiastically for ages whenever a German sports team made it to the capital for the last round, meanwhile it has left the confines of sports and is now even used by the Berlin Tourist Board for a campaign to attract...

MALU 13.09.2008 18:43 (13.09.2008 18:56) · Read review
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Review of Berlin (Germany)

Oh Yes, Berlin!

Advantages: Clean, warm, central and cheap
Disadvantages: None

...Planning a short trip to Berlin with another family, I immediately looked for an apartment rather than a hotel. When two groups holiday together I find it much more companionable and much cheaper to stay in an apartment. Over the past years I have found that European city centre apartments are good quality and in plentiful supply, so I googled Berlin apartments and immediately found the Oh...

dee7778 12.04.2013 15:11 (12.04.2013 17:21) · Read review
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Review of Oh Berlin apartment 14780, Berlin

Wartime Berlin

Advantages: A detailed look at the lives of ordinary Germans during WWII
Disadvantages: No specific look at the lives of women at the time

...Berlin at War is an account of the day to day lives of the ordinary people of Berlin, the then capital of Nazi Germany, during the Second World War. Berlin was heavily bombed throughout much of the war, and suffered greatly as the symbolic target of Allied forces at the end.A lot of books about London in the Blitz have been published, as have lots of military books about the war and...

elkiedee 06.12.2011 13:01 (12.01.2012 18:24) · Read review
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Review of Berlin At War - Roger Moorhouse