Long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy GAME SET & MATCH when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world East is East & West is West
- & they meet in Berlin He was the best source the Department ever had but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall Brahms Four' was certain a high-ranking mole was set to betray him There was only one Englishman he trusted any more someone from the old days So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk The field is Berlin The game is as baffling treacherous & lethal as ever
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Zeitgeist The Roaring Twenties in Berlin It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases of brilliant book design of the Bauhaus total work of art of pioneering psychology of drag balls cabaret Metropolis & Marlene Dietrich s rising star in theater & silent film Between the paroxysms of two world wars Berlin in the 1920s was a carpe diem cultural heyday replete with groundbreaking art invention & thought This book immerses readers in the freewheeling spirit of the Weimar age Through exemplary works in painting sculpture architecture graphic design photography & film we uncover the innovations ideas & precious dreams that characterized this unique cultural window We take in the jazz bars & dance halls; the crowded kinos & flapper fashion; the advances in technology & transport; the radio towers & rumbling trams & trains; the soaring buildings; the cinematic masterworks; & the newly independent women who smoked cigarettes wore their hair short & earned their own money Featured works in this vivid cultural portrait include Hannah Hoch s Journalists; Lotte Jacobi s Hands on the Typewriter; Otto Dix s Portrait of Sylvia von Harden; Peter Behrens s Project Alexanderplatz; & Josef von Sternberg s The Blue Angel starring Dietrich as cabaret performer Lola Lola Along the way we explore both the utopian yearnings & the more ominous economic & political realities which fueled the era s escapist idealistic or reactionary masterworks Behind the bright lights & glitter dresses we see the inflation factory labor & fragile political consensus that lurked beneath this golden era & would eventually spell its savage end with the rise of National Socialism" ...

With nearly 200 unique images photographed on the streets of Berlin by the author between 1959 & 1966 Berlin in the Cold War depicts a city which demonstrated the conflict between East & West at that time like no other The photographs throw into focus the situation existing both before the building of the Berlin Wall when anyone could move freely between the two halves of the city & after its construction when most Westerners could with some difficulty make the crossing Allan Hailstone took many photographs during several visits in those years some surreptitiously despite restrictions placed on photography in East Berlin These photographs provide a taste of this once dramatically divided city ...

Marco Polo Berlin City Map the ideal map for your trip Let the Marco Polo city map of Berlin guide you around this amazing city Highly durable & waterproof this handy pocket-size Berlin map folds away easily & is always on standby to help when you're stuck Laminated finish
- waterproof durable & tear-resistant This hard-wearing little pocket map of Berlin will withstand lots of folding & refolding Pocket format
- the handy light-weight pocket-size format contains huge coverage of Berlin Easy to use
- the super clear mapping in strong colours & clear text will help you navigate the city like a local Public transport maps
- the centre of Berlin is easy to navigate on foot but if your feet have had enough then look no further than the easy reference Berlin metro map which is also included Detailed scale
- the scale is 1 15 000 showing you even the smallest of streets Practical tourist information
- Marco Polo's favourite top 10 sights are highlighted & cross-referenced to the map for ease of use Theatres concert halls shopping destinations museums art galleries churches & parks are also listed & cross-referenced Ideal for short break fly-drive & package holidays Extensive street index Coverage

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- from Gesundbrunnen in the north west to Charlottenburg east to Friedrichshain & south Tempelhofer Park this detailed map will help you plan your time in Berlin Trust Marco Polo's clear mapping & thorough street index to guide you around the wonderful city of Berlin








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Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930's Berlin But then he went freelance & each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi sub-culture & even after the war amidst the decayed imperial splendour of Vienna Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison ...

April 1945 East of Berlin the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich To the north at a lonely outpost near the Baltic sea German scientists perfect a guidance system for the mighty V2 rocket which has already caused massive damage to the cities of London & Antwerp This device known only by the codename Diamondstream will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with pin-point accuracy So devastating is the potential of this newly-mastered technology that Hitler's promise to the German people of a 'miracle weapon' that will turn the tide of the war might actually come true When a radio message sent to Hitler's Headquarters heralding the success of Diamondstream is intercepted by an English listening station British Intelligence orders one of its last agents operating in Berlin to acquire the plans for the device Desperate to evacuate their agent from the doomed city before the Red Army swarms through its streets British Special Operations turns to the Kremlin for help They ask for one man in particular
- Inspector Pekkala Anxious to acquire the plans for himself Stalin readily agrees to risk his finest investigator on what appears to be a suicide mission But when Pekkala learns the reason that the British have singled him out he knows that he must make the journey no matter what the outcome might be The agent he must rescue is the woman he had planned to marry before the Revolution tore them apart sending her to Paris as a refugee & Pekkala to a gulag in Siberia This time for Pekkala it is personal
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Berlin the capital city of Germany can be seen as a 25-year-old city Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the city's identity evolved to be modern tolerant & at times even eccentric This identity was forged by the reunion of two close but disparate populations On one side Berliners lived in a city of right angles grey dull comfortless with uniformity as dogma On the other the architecture was more traditional & eclectic & the lifestyle much more comfortable Today thanks to the successful reunification Berlin is becoming one of the most visited capitals in Europe In his Berlin Sketchbook artist Fabrice Moireau
- ever passionate about urban architecture
- captures both the iconic sites & hidden corners of Germany's capital bringing out the best of the city

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play BERLIN STATION is a contemporary spy series that follows Daniel Miller (Richard Armitage) an undercover agent who has just arrived at the CIA station in Berlin Germany Miller has a clandestine mission to determine the identity of a now-famous whistleblower masquerading as “ Thomas Shaw” Guided by jaded veteran Hector De Jean (Rhys Ifans) Daniel learns to contend with the rough-&-tumble world of the field office agent-running deception danger & moral compromises As he dives deeper into the German capital’s hall of mirrors & uncovers the threads of a conspiracy that leads back to Washington Daniel wonders Can anyone ever be the same after a posting to Berlin? Language English Subtitles English Danish Dutch German Spanish Dubbed French German Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 4 ...

Presenting the spirit of Berlin this book is a photographic journey into the city's history Devastated by two world wars divided during the Cold War & liberated with the destruction of the wall Berlin has survived extraordinary circumstances over the course of its history & emerged as a center of European power & culture From 1860 to the present day this book presents the story of Berlin in photographs portraits maps & aerial views With nearly 700 pages of emotional atmospheric images this is the most comprehensive photographic study on Berlin ever made More than a tribute to the city & its history this book especially pays homage to Berlin's inhabitants full of hope & strength in their faces is reflected Berlin's undying soul Also included is an index of photographers' biographies ...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'RECOUNTS IN HARROWING DETAIL & WITH FORMIDABLE SKILL THE BRUTAL DEATH-THROES OF HITLER'S REICH AT THE HANDS OF THE RAMPAGING RED ARMY' Boyd Tonkin Independent' Makes us feel the chaos & the fear as if every drop of blood was our own compellingly readable deeply researched & beautifully written' Simon Sebag Montefiore Spectator' An irresistibly compelling narrative of events so terrible that they still have the power to provoke wonder & awe' Adam Sisman Observer'A masterpiece' Michael Burleigh Guardian' Brilliant Combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with a novelist's eye for detail' Orlando Figes Sunday Times' Startling chilling compelling Beevor's writing burns like a torch at night in a landscape of ruins' Literary Review' Powerful diligently researched & beautifully written even better than Stalingrad' Andrew Roberts Mail on Sunday The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945 Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht & SS brutality The result was the most terrifying example of fire & sword ever known with tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks mass rape pillage & destruction Hundreds of thousands of women & children froze to death or were massacred because Nazi Party chiefs refusing to face defeat had forbidden the evacuation of civilians Over seven million fled westwards from the terror of the Red Army Antony Beevor reconstructs the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse telling a terrible story of pride stupidity fanatacism revenge & savagery but also one of astonishing endurance self-sacrifice & survival against all odds ...