A Woman in Berlin

Copyright

First published in Great Britain in 2005 by Virago Press

First published in 1954 by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York.

This edition, which was slightly revised by the author, was first

published in Germany as Eine Frau in Berlin by Eichborn Verlag.

Reprinted in 2005 (twice)

This paperback edition published in 2006 by Virago Press

Reprinted 2006 (three times)

Copyright © Hannelore Marek 2002

Copyright © Eichborn Verlag AG, Frankfurt am Main, 2003

Introduction copyright © Antony Beevor 2004

Afterword copyright © Hans Magnus Enzensberger 2004

Translation copyright © Philip Boehm 2004

The moral right of the author has been asserted

All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN-13: 978-1-84408-112-7

ISBN-10: 1-84408-112-5

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