Post war/ Berlin wall books

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I have just finished What Only We Know. Highly recommend it.
It got me interested in post Ww2 Germany and the development of East and West Germany and the wall. Any suggestions?

This history of the Berlin Wall is excellent: www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Wall-August-November-reissued/dp/1526614278/ref=asc_df_1526614278/?hvlocphy=9045953&hvlocphy=9045953&linkCode=df0&hvptwo&hvptwo&psc=1&psc=1&hvnetw=g&hvnetw=g&hvadid=394283766178&hvadid=394283766178&hvpone&hvpone&hvlocint&hvlocint&ref&th=1&hvpos&hvpos&hvdev=m&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt&hvqmt&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&hvtargid=pla-835074144873&hvtargid=pla-835074144873&hvrand=14609434811855932065&hvrand=14609434811855932065&adgrpid=81876191997

And Stasiland by Anna Funder is brilliant on life in East Germany.

Thanks for the suggestion

Thank you!

I enjoyed this book by Jana Hensel
After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next

ive enjoyed liepzig by fiona rintoul
and highly recomend the german house by annette hess - set during the war crime trials of the 1960s.

Agree with both of Bookworm's.

The House by the Lake is good.

ooh you might also like 'miss grahams cold war cook book' by celia rees - its excellent.

I can highly recommend Nina Willner 'Forty Autumns'. True story of three generations of women in post war Berlin

I have more too - but I haven't read these ones!

• This Terrible Beauty by Katrin Schumann

And

The German Heiress by Anika Scott

Sisters of Berlin by Juliet Conlin is a good story, especially if you know Berlin - a bit of Wall and a modern day mystery

The Moment by Douglas Kennedy is set E and W Berlin, emotive and gripping

1989 The Berlin Wall by Peter Millar, always a good writer

Agents of The State by Mike Nicol

Go Went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck is very Berlin reflecting on now and back

The Standardization of Demoralization Prodecures by Jennifer Hofmann (I couldn't get on with this one at all, but it's very much about the Wall)

Learning German (badly) by Tim Luscombe, memoir set in Berlin - a Brit's perspective on life and history in the city

Well, you have probably got enough to be going on with... enjoy your 'trip' to Berlin

Partly related to your request...I'm currently reading Fatherland by Robert Harris. It's set (mostly) in Berlin in the 60's, in a world where Germany won WWII, Hitler is still alive and ruling and where life is so very different. It is a fictional thriller but really quite chilling.