Andrew Roberts, author of "Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945" "A well-researched, fluently-written and utterly absorbing account of what life (and, so very often) death was like for ordinary Germans in the capital of Hitler's Reich during the Second World War. The Berliners' capacity for suffering, for sacrifice, for self-delusion, but also astonishingly for love--and even on occasion humour--is superbly evoked by Moorhouse's cornucopia of new information." "Kirkus," starred review"A superb addition to the social history of Nazi Germany.... An august contribution to the city-during-a-war genre, worthy to sit alongside such classics as Margaret Leech's "Reveille in Washington "(1941) and Ernest Furguson's "Ashes of Glory" (1996)." Antony Beevor, author of "Stalingrad" and "The Fall of Berlin 1945"""""Berlin at War "is a well-researched and beautifully composed account, vividly recreating those years of Nazi arrogance, oppression, and corruption, which ended in such terrible destruction and civilian suffering." "Publishers Weekly""British historian Moorhouse puts a human face on the capital city of a Reich at war." "Kirkus Reviews," starred review"A superb addition to the social history of Nazi Germany.... An august contribution to the city-during-a-war genre, worthy to sit alongside such classics as Margaret Leech's Reveille in Washington (1941) and Ernest Furguson's Ashes of Glory (1996)." "Independent" (London)"Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war....Moorhouse's meticulous and painstaking research is matched by his narrative verve, wide-ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail." "Daily Telegraph" (London)"Evocative social history....[Moorhouse] punctures a variety of myths. The Berlin he depicts is not the portrait of fanat

Roger Moorhouse is a regular contributor to "BBC History Magazine." He is the author of "Killing Hitler: The Plots, the Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death," and coauthor with Norman Davies of "Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City." He lives in Buckinghamshire, England.