As Trump wages a tariff war with China, seeking to boost domestic electronics manufacturing, this book offers an unparalleled insight into why his strategy is embarrassingly naïve.

Island tales, lake swimming and forming relationships with rivers all feature in Freya Bromley’s pick of the books to focus on women and water. At the age of 28, Jessica finds herself alone in Berlin ...

The last line of "Alone in Berlin" underscores the novel's theme of individual choices and their consequences. It suggests that, in a world filled with fear and oppression, some characters managed ...

Yet for much of his adult life, the Berlin-based writer ... of a life spent largely alone is the subject of Schreiber’s reflective, elegantly written book – a bestseller in Germany and ...

BERLIN — So there I was in Bebelplatz, next to the Berlin opera house, across the city’s grandest boulevard from a great university, at the site of the most notorious Nazi book burnings ...

The book itself, at a little over a 100 pages, is a short spell, a momentary sensation that departs without much hubbub. The narrator in Sojourn is visiting Berlin ... let alone respond to them!" ...

Powerful elites conceive, choreograph and profit from wars; working-class people fight and die in them; the worst kind of evil is purified by propaganda. Hans Fallada was well-positioned to ...

Hans Fallada’s “Every Man Dies Alone.” This is the one ... Sven Regener’s “Berlin Blues.” One of the funniest German books ever, it explores what it was like to live in Berlin after ...

His seminal novel, Alone in Berlin, written at a lick in the immediate ... good and bad – when snoops were everywhere. McKay’s book gives much shorter shrift to coverage of post-war Berlin.

Why was Howley seemingly alone ... much in the book (though he does spend some time on increasingly vibrant black markets, including those for all the goods brought to Berlin by the Americans ...