Berlin at War

A finely observed social history of Berliners during the war

Sunday Times

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

Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War

As a leading historian of modern Germany, Moorhouse has chronicled a largely unknown story with scholarship, narrative verve and, at times, an awful, harrowing immediacy

Ian Thompson, Sunday Telegraph

Berlin at War is a well-researched and beautifully composed account, vividly recreating those years of Nazi arrogance, oppression, and corruption, that ended in such terrible destruction and civilian suffering

Antony Beevor

Few books on the war genuinely increase the sum of our collective knowledge of this exhaustively covered period, but this one does... By trawling through the complex, often deeply morally compromised personal stories of many survivors, Moorhouse has produced new insights into the way ordinary Berliners tried to escape the disastrous ill-fortune of living in the belly of the beast

Andrew Roberts, Financial Times

It provides something rare: a popular history account that will satisfy both general readers and professional historians

Irish Times

Moorhouse has a deep knowledge of wartime Germany...he has a nice eye for social detail

Sunday Times

Moorhouse has written an extraordinarily detailed account of ordinary life in Berlin during the Second World War

Sunday Herald

Moorhouse's evocative social history of Hitler's capital brings all these aromas together, along with the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Germans who lived here

Keith Lowe, Daily Telegraph

Roger Moorhouse has a deep knowledge of Wartime Germany... Moorhouse has a nice eye for social detail

Max Hastings, Sunday Times

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 matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail

CJ Schuler, The Independent

Roger Moorhouse's measured, sympathetic book offers a fascinating corrective to that Anglocentric perspective... After reading this thorough and engaging book you'll never be able to watch a war film or even a World Cup football match in quite the same way

James Delingpole, Daily Mail

The searing experiences of Berliners are brought to life through often deeply morally compromised personal stories

Financial Times, Christmas round up

There is a haunting quality to Roger Moorhouse's Berlin at War, the ominous drumbeat of approaching nemesis for ordinary civilians who, since 1933, had witnessed and participated in the rise of the Nazi cult

Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up

There's a pounding quietness to Moorhouse's description of life in Berlin

Vera Rule, Guardian