Chronicling the history of Berlin, this book charts the Communist-Nazi
struggle of the Weimar Republic; the Thousand Year Reich with its
penchant for show and architectural grandeur which transformed the city;
and its consequent battering by the Allies and the Soviets by air and
land respectively. The city's position as the central point of the Cold
War is examined, focusing on the partition, and eventual reunion, of
East and West.