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10 best books like Berlin (David Clay Large): The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889, Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape, Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin, What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933, The Germans, For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, An Ermine in Czernopol

The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
AuthorMary Elise Sarotte
ISBN0465064949
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall—infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe—seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night...
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
AuthorFrederic Morton
On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.

Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling...
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
AuthorAdam Zamoyski
ISBN0060775181
In the wake of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, the French emperor's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. While the Treaty of Paris that followed Napoleon's exile in 1814 put an end to a quarter century...
The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
AuthorBrian Ladd
ISBN0226467627
In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Ladd surveys the urban landscape, excavating its ruins, contemplating its buildings and memorials, and carefully deconstructing...
Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin
AuthorAlexandra Richie
ISBN0786706813
Berlin - called the Schicksal Stadt Deutschlands, the City of German Destiny - has been at the heart of the most important events of not only Germany, but also modern Europe. In this powerful historical narrative, Oxford historian Alexandra Richie follows Berlin from its Medieval foundation to the...
What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
AuthorJoseph Roth
ISBN0393325822
The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its "nonstop brilliance, irresistible...
The Germans
AuthorGordon A. Craig
ISBN0452010853
They have given mankind triumphs in science, literature, philosophy, music, and art. They have also produced Hitler and the Holocaust. They are romantic and conservative, idealistic and practical, proud and insecure, ruthless and good-natured. They are, in short, the Germans.
Gordon A. Craig,...
For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
AuthorFrederick Brown
ISBN0307266311
Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching book—a perfect joining...
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
AuthorEric D. Weitz
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating...
An Ermine in Czernopol
AuthorGregor von Rezzori
ISBN1590173414
Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating sister-in-law at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters,...
1848: Year of Revolution
AuthorMike Rapport
ISBN0465020674
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815—but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom. Political events so...
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
AuthorPeter Gay
ISBN0393322394
First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's...
The Divided Nation: A History of Germany 1918-1990
AuthorMary Fulbrook
ISBN0195075706
Covering all major aspects of German history from the Weimar Republic through reunification, this new textbook offers a remarkably rich, insightful survey of a difficult and controversial subject. It integrates East German history more fully than competing texts, offering a precisely nuanced...
Five Germanys I Have Known
AuthorFritz Stern
ISBN0374530866
The "German question" haunts the modern world: How could so civilized a nation be responsible for the greatest horror in Western history? In this unusual fusion of personal memoir and history, the celebrated scholar Fritz Stern refracts the question through the prism of his own life. Born in the Weimar...
The Fall of Berlin
AuthorAnthony Read
ISBN1568523335
Presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the world's greatest cities caught between the lunacy and cruelty of its leaders and the brutal determination of encircling Soviet armies.

Reviews:
"Read and Fisher ( Kristallnacht ) present a vivid verbal panorama of conditions in the German...
A Social History of the Third Reich
AuthorRichard Grunberger
ISBN0753819384
The Nazis developed a social system unprecedented in history. It was cosmetics, no slimming) as well as charting how you progressed to the elite Nazi cadres - administrators, propagandists, or coercers. It shows childhood with the Hitler Youth and describes the intense medieval ritual injected...
After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation
AuthorGiles MacDonogh
ISBN0465003370
When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, the Allied powers converged on Germany and divided it into four zones of occupation. A nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs, was suddenly subjected to brutal occupation by vengeful victors. Rape was rampant. Hundreds of thousands of...
The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001
AuthorGitta Sereny
ISBN0140292632
Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together the best of her writing on Germany from over sixty years. It amounts to an extraordinary portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively...
Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy
AuthorChristopher Simpson
ISBN1497623065
The true story of how US intelligence organizations employed Nazi war criminals in clandestine warfare and propaganda against the USSR, anticolonial revolutionaries, and progressive movements worldwide that were claimed to be Soviet pawns; includes a new, previously suppressed introduction...
No Man's Land: 1918, the Last Year of the Great War
AuthorJohn Toland
ISBN0803294514
From freezing infantrymen huddled in bloodied trenches on the front lines to intricate political maneuvering and tense strategy sessions in European capitals, noted historian John Toland tells of the unforgettable final year of the First World War. As 1918 opened, the Allies and Central Powers...
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947
AuthorChristopher Clark
ISBN0674023854
Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great...
Munich, 1938: Appeasement and World War II
AuthorDavid Faber
On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting in Munich with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. As he disembarked from the aircraft, he held aloft a piece of paper, which contained the promise that Britain and Germany would never go to war with one...
Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945
AuthorMarie Vassiltchikov
ISBN0394757777
Upfront: I would rate this book zero stars for its literary value but 5 stars for its highly interesting contents.

If you are interested in historical facts connected with WWII (especially the failed bomb attack on Hitler by Count Stauffenberg and his allies, who had planned to not only kill...
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