Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, ...
Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...
As Ian Buruma shows in “Stay Alive,” his crisply told and uncomfortably relevant history of wartime Berlin, they feed off the ...
In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance ...
Ian Buruma’s Stay Alive recounts wartime Berlin through hidden Jews, German resisters, and the ordeal of his own father.