John Kampfner is an award-winning author, broadcaster and foreign-affairs commentator. He began his career reporting from East Berlin (during the fall of the Wall) and Moscow (during the collapse of communism) for the Telegraph. After covering British politics for the Financial Times and BBC, he edited the New Statesman. He is a regular TV and radio pundit, documentary maker and author of six previous books, including the bestselling Blair's Wars. His most recent book, Why the Germans Do it Better, was a top ten bestseller, Book of the Year in the Guardian, Economist and the New Statesman, and sold over 100,000 copies in all editions.

'A delightful read... Kampfner's book, with its flurry of anecdotes and observations, captures [Berlin's] sense of disorder. He refuses to define a city that has never been able to define itself, instead presenting readers with the city's infinitely captivating mayhem.'

• 1: Eight hundred years and one world house 2: Nobody's palace 3: A very modern conflict 4: Les nouveaux Prussiens 5: The torments of hell 6: Sparta and Athens 7: Reformers and radicals 8: Finally, very rich 9: Sleeping in shifts 10: At the edge of my days 11: The city that cannot stop remembering 12: Subsidy city 13: Erich's lamp shop 14: They came and never left 15: Back where they belong 16: Fear of normality

John Kampfner is an award-winning author, broadcaster and foreign-affairs commentator. He began his career reporting from East Berlin (during the fall of the Wall) and Moscow (during the collapse of communism) for the Telegraph. After covering British politics for the Financial Times and BBC, he edited the New Statesman. He is a regular TV and radio pundit, documentary maker and author of six previous books, including the bestselling Blair's Wars. His most recent book, Why the Germans Do it Better, was a top ten bestseller, Book of the Year in the Guardian, Economist and the New Statesman, and sold over 100,000 copies in all editions.

'A delightful read... Kampfner's book, with its flurry of anecdotes and observations, captures [Berlin's] sense of disorder. He refuses to define a city that has never been able to define itself, instead presenting readers with the city's infinitely captivating mayhem.'

• 1: Eight hundred years and one world house 2: Nobody's palace 3: A very modern conflict 4: Les nouveaux Prussiens 5: The torments of hell 6: Sparta and Athens 7: Reformers and radicals 8: Finally, very rich 9: Sleeping in shifts 10: At the edge of my days 11: The city that cannot stop remembering 12: Subsidy city 13: Erich's lamp shop 14: They came and never left 15: Back where they belong 16: Fear of normality