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, with Potsdam & the Sanssouci Palace, on a tourist street plan from Red Maps presented in a handy concertina format & printed on thick high quality paper, with thematic indexes for sights, hotels, shopping, etc. The plan covers Berlin from the Messe centre to the Friedrichshain district in the east, & north/south from Moabit to Kreuzberg districts. Rather than show its map scale as the traditional ratio, the publishers indicate coverage eat/west as 14.76 km/ 9.2 miles & north/south 6.15 km/3.8 miles (effectively 1:27, 000 approx). On the reverse a separate panel shows Potsdam with the Sanssouci Palace. The plan names tourist sights & important buildings, entertainment venues, selected hotels, etc. Also highlighted are main shopping streets with names of selected individual stores. S- & U-Bahn stations & connections are very clearly indicated. On the reverse are thematic lists of sights & important buildings, hotels, etc. A special panel provides area-by-area recommendation of (mainly fashion) shops. An index lists a selection of neighbourhoods & streets, plus a handful of stations. To see other street plans from Red Maps with similar presentation please click on the series link. ...

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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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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` Compelling, suspenseful & beautifully done` Anna Funder, author of STASILAND A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics
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”A mind-shaking work of investigative history”. (” Wall Street Journal”). Checkpoint Charlie, 27 October 1961. At 9pm on a damp night, the ” Cold War” reaches crisis point, US & Soviet tanks face off across the East-West divide, only yards apart. One mistake, one nervous soldier, could spring the tripwire for nuclear war... Frederick Kempe`s gripping book tells the story of the Cold War`s most dramatic year, when Berlin became what Khrushchev called `the most dangerous place on earth`. Kempe re-creates the war of nerves between the young, untested President Kennedy & the bombastic Soviet leader as they squared off over the future of a divided city. He interweaves this with stories of the ordinary citizens whose lives were torn apart when the Berlin Wall went up
- & the world came to the brink of disaster.
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