John Kampfner is an award-winning author, broadcaster and commentator

In Search of Berlin The Story of a Reinvented City

No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin.

Berlin has been a military barracks, industrial powerhouse, centre of learning, hotbed of decadence - and the laboratory for the worst experiment in horror known to man. Now a city of refuge, it is home to 180 nationalities. Berlin never stands still. It is never satisfied. It never believes it has the answer. But it is now the irresistible capital to which the world is gravitating.

 In Search of Berlin is an 800-year story, a dialogue between past and present; it is a new way of looking at this turbulent and beguiling city on its never-ending journey of reinvention.

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