TY - BOOK AU - MacLean,Rory TI - Berlin: imagine a city SN - 9781780224589 (pbk.) : AV - DD860 U1 - 943.155 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson KW - History KW - ukslc KW - Berlin (Germany) KW - Civilization KW - Social life and customs N1 - Originally published: 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centres of the world. Rory MacLean provides a richly varied, unexpected tour of the city's history ER -