Berlin
- Brandenburg
- Saxony-Anhalt region at 1:275, 000 in a series of eight regional road maps from Kümmerly + Frey printed

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German state of Brandenburg with Berlin on an indexed road map at 1:200, 000 in the Mair Dumont’s Marco Polo series, prominently highlighting interesting locations & protected areas. A 95-page index booklet

Includes:: for the Berlin/ Postdam area street plans of central & west Berlin & Potsdam, plus enlargements of the environs at 1:100, 000 showing in greater detail road access. Similar plans & enlargements cover Brandenburg, Cottbus & Frankfurt an der Oder. Maps in this Mair Dumont Marco Polo series indicate topography by light relief shading & the series is particularly good for identifying geographical

Features: mountain & hill chains, valleys, national/natural parks, etc. The maps boldly stress main roads & motorways in strong colours & selected towns in large letters, but also show minor roads & villages in considerable detail. Road information

Includes:: toll roads, traffic restrictions & seasonal closures, gradient marking for steep roads, etc. Motorway services clearly indicate types of facilities available there, & driving distances are marked on many small local roads. Scenic roads & special tourist routes are highlighted. Railway network

Includes:: narrow gauge & tourist lines, cable car lines, & chair lifts. Where appropriate, ferry connections are shown. Locations worth visiting, both town/villages & natural sites, are highlighted & graded; 15 best sites are prominently marked & cross-referenced to their descriptions in the accompanying booklet. Other tourist information

Includes:: campsites & youth hostels, landmarks, recreational facilities etc. Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at intervals of 10`. Each title comes with a booklet attached to the map cover containing street plans & maps at 1:100, 000 showing in greater detail road access to main cities. The booklet also provides an index listing towns/villages with their postcodes as well as rivers & landscape features, plus a table with distances/travelling times, & for route planning an overview of the whole area covered by the main map indicating the 15 special places of interest. Map legend & the descriptions include English. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.









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A 628km cycle route from Berlin to Copenhagen via the Rostok to Gedser ferry. Detailed maps show the route & its variants & extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE: ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH, please see our sample image, & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of a similar product in English from other publishers. There is currently no English edition this title available in this series. About the series: All the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans.




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Berlin
- Copenhagen Cycle Route, a 650-km long cycle route linking the two capitals via the Rostok to Gedser ferry, presented
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For forty years photography in Berlin had been held hostage, like the city, in a ferocious heart-rending ideological struggle, a new war of representation, played out in large part via the image, still & in motion. Protagonist of the great season of photographic reportage in the democracies of the latter half of the twentieth century & instrument of propaganda in the totalitarian regimes of the East, photography narrated & incarnated the division of the two blocs. It focused on that wall built by Soviet power, the materialisation of the Iron Curtain that cut through Europe, separating East from West, real socialism from consumer capitalism. This long bulwark of precast concrete four meters high crossed the city for forty kilometers, continuing for another hundred & forty, enlarged & reinforced again & again, always guarded, observed for almost thirty years by eyes on either side, object of a constant surveillance. This book documents the photography that bore witness to the fall & what came after. ...

Berlin
- Potsdam Region Street Atlas in a series of detailed atlases covering the whole of Germany at 1:20, 000 with UTM coordinates
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The Style City series focuses on the vitality & uniqueness of the world's greatest cities. Each volume is superbly designed & produced, yet ingeniously practical, with lavish photography, easy-to-read maps, & informed & enjoyable texts. From offbeat cafes & cutting-edge restaurants to the most stylish stores, hotels & neighbourhoods, Style City reveals & revels in all the special places where both locals & discerning travellers can find a vibrant & idiosyncratic urban experience. Ravaged by history, riven in half, gateway to Eastern Europe, Berlin is one of the most dynamic & exciting cities in Europe, a cultural, artistic & creative magnet for the third millennium. Architectural icons
- new & old
- entrenched bohemianism, & a flamboyant nightlife are just a few of Berlin's colourful facets. Against a rapidly changing backdrop, Style City Berlin spotlights the very best of the city, underground, in the open, & behind closed doors.

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Berlin: the Downfall, 1945, is Antony Beevor`s account of the bloody Götterdämmerung that brought the Second World War in Europe to an end, & in which he has fused the large & the small scale effects of war. Beevor paints the broad picture of Marshals Zhukov & Konev, competing for glory & Stalin`s attention, as they race their armies towards Berlin. He gives the reader a gripping account of the brutal street-by-street fighting in the German capital & provides an unforgettable portrait of the last, insane days of Hitler & his entourage in the bunker. Beevor’s attention to emotional detail, in combination with his sweeping historical narrative, shows a remarkable sensitivity to the unfolding human drama of Nazi Germany’s last days. He also highlights the small details of ordinary people caught in the nightmare of history
- the sick children evacuated at the last minute from a Potsdam hospital; the Soviet soldiers shaving themselves for the first time in weeks so that they would make appropriately presentable conquerors; & the Nazi Youth teenagers peddling their bikes in despairing, last-ditch attacks against the Red Army`s tanks. The story Beevor tells is an almost unremittingly terrible one--one of death, rape, hunger & human misery--but he tells it with both an epic sweep & an alertness to individuality.
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Berlin, an original antique map by S.D.U.K., published in London, 1844. Steel plate, original o/l colour. Map size 38 x 29 cm, overall mounted size 53 x 45 cm.A detailed map of Berlin published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The Society was founded by John, Earl Russell, & Henry Brougham, later Lord Chancellor of England in 1827. The Society's main purpose was to encourage universal literacy by publishing numbers of books of good quality that would be affordable to all. These town plans were published in perhaps the grandest of the Society's publications
- their atlas entitled Maps Of The Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge, first issued by Baldwin & Cradock, & then re-issued by other publishers, including Chapman & Hall & latterly Edward Stanford. This map of Berlin

Includes:: illustrations of the city's principal buildings across its lower edge. The map was engraved by J. Henshall after W.B. Clarke. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford


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History has indelibly imprinted itself onto the cityscape of Berlin
- the period of the Nazi regime in particular. The many air
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