Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Author, now dead, is thought to have been a journalist or publisher.This is a <b>devastating book</b>. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. <b>Everybody, in particular every woman ought to read it</b>
- Arundhati Roy,
One of the <b>most important personal accounts</b> ever written about the effects of war and defeat
- Antony Beevor,
This is not an hysterical woman ... you simply cannot dismiss it ... profoundly, acutely embarrassing ... an insight into the resilience of people in an unknowable situation
- Robert Sandhill,
Complex, closely observed diary by a woman living in conquered Berlin at the end of WWII
Kirkus Reviews
Let Anonymous stand witness as she wished to: as an undistorted voice for all women in war and its aftermath, whatever their names or nation or ethnicity. Anywhere
Los Angeles Times
An <b>astonishing record of survival </b>. . . the voice of Anonymous emerges as both shrewd and funny . . . a fresh contribution to the literature of war
Entertainment Weekly
A <b>stunning account</b> of a German woman's battle to survive repeated rape at the hands of the victors among the ruins of Berlin . . . While leaders plot their dreams of glory and victory, the lives of ordinary people--on all sides--are trampled and destroyed. <b>A most salutary work</b>
- David Hare, Guardian
The<b> author has a fierce, uncompromising voice</b>, and her book should become a classic of war literature
Publishers Weekly
Marvelous . . . As it is a human instinct to survive, this book, which could have been horrifying, is instead exhilarating: a <b>rare tribute to the human spirit</b>
Daily Mail
<b>Coolly written, tearingly honest</b> . . . This is a classic not only of war literature but also of writing at the very extreme of human suffering
Daily Telegraph
This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every woman ought to read it.
Arundhati Roy, author of The Good of Small Things
Complex, closely observed diary by a woman living in conquered Berlin at the end of WWII.
Kirkus Reviews
Let Anonymous stand witness as she wished to: as an undistorted voice for all women in war and its aftermath, whatever their names or nation or ethnicity. Anywhere.
Los Angeles Times
An astonishing record of survival . . . the voice of Anonymous emerges as both shrewd and funny . . . a fresh contribution to the literature of war.
Entertainment Weekly
A riveting account of a military atrocity . . . The author doesn't try to explain or moralize the horror. She simply records it as perhaps no one else has, in all of its devastating essence.
The New York Observer
A stunning account of a German woman's battle to survive repeated rape at the hands of the victors among the ruins of Berlin . . . While leaders plot their dreams of glory and victory, the lives of ordinary people--on all sides--are trampled and destroyed. A most salutary work.
- David Hare, The Guardian
The author has a fierce, uncompromising voice, and her book should become a classic of war literature.
Publishers Weekly
Marvelous . . . As it is a human instinct to survive, this book, which could have been horrifying, is instead exhilarating: a rare tribute to the human spirit.
Daily Mail
Coolly written, tearingly honest . . . This is a classic not only of war literature but also of writing at the very extreme of human suffering.
The Daily Telegraph