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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Wallpaper City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we've done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites, & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city's landscape & the satisfaction you've seen all that you should. In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

Berlin in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

The Berlin 3D Expanding City Skyline
- Pocket Pop up Book by Walker Books features twelve of Berlin’s most famous sites accompanied
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The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a new translation by Michael Hofmann, translator of Alone in Berlin Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks & prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over & over again
- until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall.A dazzling collage of newspaper reports, Biblical stories, drinking songs & urban slang, Berlin Alexanderplatz is the great novel of Berlin life: inventing, styling & recreating the city as reality & dream; mimicking its movements & rhythms; immortalizing its pubs, abattoirs, apartments & chaotic streets. From the gutter to the stars, this is the whole picture of the city. Berlin Alexanderplatz brought fame in 1929 to its author Alfred Doeblin, until then an impecunious writer & doctor in a working-class neighbourhood in the east of Berlin. Success at home was short-lived, however; Doblin, a Jew, left Germany the day after the Reichstag Fire in 1933, & did not return until 1945. This landmark translation by Michael Hofmann is the first to do justice to Berlin Alexanderplatz in English, brilliantly capturing the energy, prodigality & inventiveness of Doeblin`s masterpiece.
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Berlin & its Environs on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75, 000 from the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club
- the official German cycling federation), in a series of maps with extensive overprint for long-distance & local cycling routes. GPS waypoints, route profiles, details of online links for information about accommodation etc. are also provided. Maps included in this series are contoured & the interval varies according to the type of the terrain. Steep sections are annotated with gradient markings. Colouring and/or graphics show various types of landscape: woods, vineyards, etc. An overprint highlights both the national long-distance cycling routes & the shorter local cycling trails, each clearly identified by a symbol and/or an abbreviation of its name. Sections with heavy traffic and/or poor road surface are clearly marked. Symbols indicate various facilities, such as railway stations with cycle hire, cycle repair shops, campsites, youth hostels, shelters, country restaurants/bars, sport & leisure facilities. Maps have a UTM grid for measuring distances & for determining location using GPS device & they are printed on weather resistant & tear-resistant paper. Each map covers an area of Approx. 87 x 130 km & the map legend is in German only. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Map No. 700, Berlin & Environs (4-map set), in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive coverage of Austria & Germany plus the Slovenian Alps, with hiking routes on a topographic base, various types of accommodation, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. Many titles are now published as competitively priced sets of two or more maps, offering a wider coverage. Kompass are Europe’s largest publishers of walking maps, with extensive coverage of hiking areas in other countries, all listed on our website. * Cartography:* all the maps are contoured with additional shading & graphic relief to provide a more detailed picture of the terrain, vegetation and/or land use. Contour interval varies from 10 metres in the coastal areas of Northern Germany to 40 or 50 metres in the mountainous parts of the two countries. All the maps highlight local & long-distance waymarked footpaths, including climbing trails. Most titles also show cycling routes, mountain bike trails, &, the in mountainous areas, ski routes. The maps indicate various types of accommodation (selected inns & hotels, youth hostels, campsites, mountain refuges), as well as recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. New editions also show access by public transport with bus stops and/or Park+ Ride facilities.* Geographical coordinates:* unless indicated to the contrary in the individual description, the maps have a UTM grid for GPS users. * Map legend:* most maps now include full English legend, particularly titles covering the Alpine areas. Some maps covering mainly eastern Austria or the less popular parts of Germany may still have a legend in German only.* Other
Features:* some titles now include on the reverse panorama drawings of their area with names of villages, peaks, valleys, etc. and/or have booklets with pictures of local wild flowers with their Latin names.*PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING!* * Booklets:* many titles come with booklets describing the area and/or various hiking routes. These booklets are in * German only*, apart from a handful of titles where an English language booklet is specifically indicated in the individual description. So, unless English language booklet is actually mentioned, the map can only be supplied with a German booklet. These booklets are not necessary to use the maps since, as stated above, most titles now include * full English language map legend.*
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Berlin & Environs Cycling Atlas from Verlag Esterbauer with 129 tours totaling nearly 1100 kilometres, presented on mapping at 1:20, 000, 1:50, 000 or 1:75.000. The shortest trip is 11km, the longest 120km. 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. Cycling atlases from Verlag Esterbauer have a map legend which

Includes:: English &, although ALL THE TEXT IN THESE GUIDES IS IN GERMAN ONLY, information provided on the maps is sufficient to use them without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of similar products in English from other publishers. Please click on our sample image to see an extract from the map legend. Each atlas

Includes:: a selection of local cycling routes & tours, presented on clear, easy to follow maps. The overprint highlighting the routes indicates road surface & density of motorized traffic. Gradients, intermediate distances, danger points, & roads closed to cyclists are marked & route profiles show the degree of difficulty for each cycle path. A wide range of symbols indicate everything from covered & lockable bicycle stands, repair workshops & bike rentals to viewpoints, nature parks, leisure & sport centres, local shopping facilities, emergency services, etc. The guides also give opening hours of museums & other local places of interest. A separate section at the end of each guide list accommodation addresses with phone numbers. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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