In 2012, a remarkable and excellent book by Roger Moorhouse was published - Berlin at War - which depicts everyday life in Berlin during the Second World War. Countless books have been written about the war, about Hitler, about Nazism, about the battle for Berlin, etc., but here is finally a book about the war and its development with a completely different perspective. The book depicts the war from the point of view of the civilian population. The book is written with a rare empathy for the struggle the civilian population had to fight and endure on a daily basis. The daily challenges with everything from getting food to surviving the increasing bomb attacks and finally street fights and assaults. The book is filled with invaluable personal eyewitness accounts of how - as he himself writes - "a city of 5 million souls experienced the six years of war."

In his preface, Moorhoose writes about his book:

The book is highly recommended because it is excellent and hard to put down.