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A fascinating record of the modern history of Berlin, told mainly in black-and-white photographs, with text by a former guard of Spandau prison (Hess committed suicide on his watch).
An excellent social history tracing the life of the city from its beginnings to post-Wall times.
A lavishly illustrated cultural history of Berlin from medieval times through to the 1990s.
Fascinating portrayal of the all-pervasive surveillance by the Stasi, the East German secret police, of its own people. Australian journalist Anna Funder interviews both the (often unrepentant) perpetrators and their victims.
An engaging read that examines the artistic brilliance and moral freedom of Berlin's Weimar years.
A powerful piece of reportage about the city that Shirer loved, feared and fled.
A book based on interviews with nearly 100 Jews who continue to live in Germany after the Holocaust, concentrating on how the memory affects their lives.
Architecture students and professionals will love this book, which chronicles the new face of Berlin as it has emerged since 1996.
A saga about the Cold War, the building of the Wall, and its effects on Berlin.
An interesting book on German society, with great emphasis on life after the Wende (fall of communism).
With quotations displayed on office buildings on Alexanderplatz itself, this stylised meander through the seamy 1920s is still a definitive Berlin text.
Set against an industrial backdrop, this is the powerful story of a woman's love for a man who fled to the West.
It's hard to imagine a Berlin novel where the fall of the Wall is almost incidental to the plot, but this cult story of Kreuzberg nights pulls it off nicely.
This collection of stranger-than-fiction stories presents a whole host of unusual characters, adding up to an entertaining and unsentimental portrait of the present-day city from the perpective of a Russian immigrant.
