Books to Movies - A Woman in Berlin

According to PW of 7/17/09, "Today, the independent film A Woman in Berlin opens in limited release, starring Nina Hoss, Yevgeni Sidikhin and Irm Hermann. It’s based on A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Anonymous (then a 34-year-old journalist who started the diary in April 1945, when the Russians were invading Berlin and the city's mostly female population was heading to its cellars to wait out the bombing), translated by Philip Boehm.” Find this book in our catalog.

Summary from our catalog: "For six weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman, alone in the city, kept a daily record of her and her neighbors' degradations, determined to describe the common experience of millions."

Military History Award

Gerhard L. Weinberg has won the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library
Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Read more of the official announcement made June 22.

"Dr. Weinberg is truly a gifted writer of military history who has devoted his skills and talent to produce A World at Arms, perhaps the finest study of World War Two ever attempted by a single scholar," said James N. Pritzker, founder of the Pritzker Military Library. Find this book in our catalog.

See also Readers Place for a list of military history books recommended by Harford County Public Library staff.