TY - BOOK AU - Richie,Alexandra TI - Faust's metropolis: a history of Berlin SN - 9780006376880 (pbk.) : U1 - 943.155 21 PY - 1999/// CY - London PB - HarperCollins KW - History KW - eflch KW - Berlin (Germany) N1 - Originally published: 1998; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Richie presents an inspiring history of the city, evaluating its achievements and errors from the revolutionary fervour of its teeming slums and the insufferable pomp of Imperial Berlin to the symbolic defeat of communism when the Wall came down ER -