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Köp båda 2 för 253 krEngrossing -- Matt Chilton, **Books of the Year** * Daily Telegraph * Eighty years after the events it depicts, Berlin 1936 is a small masterpiece you actually feel like you were there The book was originally in German, but Jefferson Chases translation is so perfectly judged, youd never even notice -- Marcus Berkmann * Daily Mail, **Books of the Year** * Entertaining... A vivid collage of vignettes gleaned from diaries, police reports, snippets from newspapers, and so on. It dances from comedy to tragedy, from the ironic to the sinister, to give a picture of a darkening Germany... Hilmes has an eye for incidental detail. -- Robbie Millen * The Times * A German historian charts the Berlin Olympics day by day through a series of memorable vignettes of life under Nazism. Hilmes deceptively jaunty, even comic tone echoes that of the Games themselves -- Simon Kuper * Financial Times, **Books of the Year** * This book reads like a tourist guide to a city on the eve of destruction -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times, **Books of the Year** *
Oliver Hilmes studied history, politics and psychology in Paris, Marburg and Potsdam, and holds a doctorate in twentieth-century history. His books include Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler, Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth and Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar. Berlin 1936 was a top-ten bestseller on publication in Germany.