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"An astonishing account of the human capacity for survival amidst a great city's descent into utter annihilation"-- Provided by publisher. "In 1939, when Ian Buruma's epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4.3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already...