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Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century by Sinclair McKay #literature the division between Whig andThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century Berlin Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the