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In the wake of World War II, the European continent was devastated, and the conflict left the Soviet Union and the United States as uncontested superpowers. This ushered in over 45 years of the Cold War, and a political alignment of Western democracies against the Communist Soviet bloc that produced conflicts pitting allies on each sides fighting, even as the American and Soviet militaries never engaged each other.

Un retrato del Berlín de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un asombroso thriller sobre la resistencia de la gente contra el Tercer Reich. Berlín, 1940, la ciudad está dominada por el miedo. Cuando la cartera Eva Kluge llega a casa de los Quangel en el número 55 de la calle Jablonski, con una carta que les anuncia la muerte de su único hijo en un campo de batalla francés, el golpe es terrible, insoportable. Es el principio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y toda la ciudad, todo el país y pronto media Europa, vive bajo el yugo del régimen de Hitler.

Para 1945, y luego del desastre de las árdenas, el Alamein y Estalingrado, el final de la II Guerra Mundial para la Alemania de Hitler estaba próximo. Stalin y Eisenhower, desde Polonia y Francia respectivamente, avanzaban imparables. La mano del mundo había concentrado sus esfuerzos para acabar con la locura nazi. Sin embargo, aún debía llevarse a cabo el asalto final: La conquista de la capital del Reich.

With strong insight into the characters of Ernest Bevin, General Clay, Dean Acheson, and Robert Schumann, and now with a foreword by former British minister to Berlin Sir Michael Burton, this a story of individual heroism and high brinkmanship politics, of daily life under appalling circumstances, and great achievements against all odds.

Los nazis quieren silenciarla, pero ella no se callará 1920. Aunque el mundo ha cambiado tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, sigue dominado por hombres. Incluso alguien tan audaz como Niki Rittenhaus, una joven actriz, necesita crear alianzas para sobresalir. Su matrimonio con Rickard Länger, un...

One WWII pilot's mission to lift the spirits of children living in war-torn Berlin in 1945 comes to life in this moving middle-grade historical account. After World War II the United States and Britain airlifted food and supplies into Russian-blockaded West Berlin. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail S...

In 1948 West Berlin, Mercedes and her mother rely on the noisy American planes that form a “sky bridge” into the city, bringing vital food and supplies. But the planes deliver more than flour, clothing, and coal. Every day, one special plane wiggles its wings, and its pilot drops small candy-filled parachutes for the children. How can Mercedes get the “Chocolate Pilot” to drop some candy just for her?

From “the most accomplished spy novelist working today” (The Sunday Times, London), a “heart-poundingly suspenseful” (The Washington Post) espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is returned to East Berlin, needing to know...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Hugely enjoyable' The Spectator 'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review 'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND 'This book might read like the...

A compulsive listen about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of narrative history'. Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Reichstag in the spring of 1945. Streets were choked with rubble...

New York Times Notable Book * Named one of NPR and Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year * The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street...