The Berlin Stories is a book comprising two short novels by Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin and Mr. Norris Changes Trains. It was published in 1946. The Berlin Stories was chosen as a TIME 100 Best English-language novels of the 20th century.

In 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its theaters, cabar...(展开全部)

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight, and one in 50 East Germans were informing on their countrymen and women, there are a thousand stories just waiting to get out. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from ...(展开全部)

The follow-up to the acclaimed The Road to Stalingrad tells the compelling story of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans out of Russia and back to Berlin. Using Soviet, German, and Eastern European primary sources, John Erickson describes fighting and hardship on an almost unimaginable scale. The detailed narrative covers battles on all the fronts. The inside infor...(展开全部)

安东尼·比弗，英国历史学家、历史题材畅销书作者。在温切斯特和桑德赫斯特接受了军事教育，并曾作为一名后备军官，随军在德国和英国服役。结束军旅生涯后，他先写小说，后改写战争纪实，大概他发现，现实生活特别是战争时期生活的戏剧性总是超出人的想象力。比弗的绝大部分著作由企鹅出版社出版。其中： 《西班牙内战》和《克里特：战斗和抵抗》获得伦西曼奖； 《保卫斯大林格勒》以其真实的细节和曲折的叙事，获得约翰逊散文文学奖、沃尔夫森历史史实故事奖和霍桑顿文学奖，已被翻译成二十几种语言； 《攻克柏林》获得第一届今日朗文历史理事奖。同样已被翻译成二十几种语言。 比弗曾荣获法国政府颁发的文学艺术骑士勋章，被肯特大学授予荣誉博士学位，他还是伦敦大学贝克特学院历史学、古典文学和考古学的访问学者。