Suggested Readings for Berlin 2000

Among general surveys and monographs you might want to consult are...

• David Tieman Doud, Berlin 2000: The Center of Europe (University Press of America, 1995).
• Anthony Read and David Fischer, Berlin Rising: Biography of a City (W. W. Norton, 1994).
• Ronald Taylor, Berlin and its Culture: a Historical Portrait (Yale University Press, 1997).
• Giles MacDonogh, Berlin: A Portrait of Its History, Politics, Architecture, and Society (St. Martin's Press, 1997)
• Brian Ladd, The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 1997)
• W. R. Smyser, From Yalta to Berlin: The Cold War Struggle over Germany (St. Martin's Press, 1999).
• Reinhard Rürup, Herausgeber. Topographie des Terrors: Gestapo, SS und Reichssicherheitshauptamt auf dem "Prinz-Albrecht-Gelände": Eine Dokumentation (Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, 1991). Please note that you will find some pictures of the Prince Albrecht Site in my tour section.
• The German Bundestag, Questions on German History: Ideas, Forces, Decisions from 1800 to the Present, Historical Exhibition in the Berlin Reichstag, Catalog (The German Bundestag Press and Information Center, 1984).
• Jürgen Habermas: A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany (University of Nebraska Press, 1997).
• Gerhard Masur, Imperial Berlin (New York: Dorset Press, 1970).
• Anthony Sutcliffe (ed.), Metropolis 1890-1940 (London: Mansell, 1984).
• Robert Darnton, Berlin Journal, 1989-1990 (New York: W.W. Norton,1993).
• Otto Friedrich, Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in 1920s, (New York: Harper and Row, 1972).
• Anne Massey, Berlin and Eastern Europe (W.W. Norton,1994).
• Gerhard Rempel, Hitler's Children (University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
• James P. O'Donnell, The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group. (Houghton Mifflin, 1978)
• Alexander Reissner, Berlin, 1675-1945: The Rise and Fall of a Metropolis: A Panoramic View. (O. Wolff, 1984).
• Gordon A. Craig, The Germans (Meridian, 1983).
• Len Deighton, Winter: A Novel of a Berlin Family (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987).

Note: Some of these books, which happen to be sitting on my shelf, may exist in later editions. The quickest way to find out is to do a search on amazon.com or amazon.de.

For those interested, there is an older, annotated bibliography here.