Faust’s Metropolis: A History of BerlinA radical and exciting history of a city its culture, its people and its politics that refreshes our image of Europes past and of the writing of history itself. In Berlin, history is tangible. The sense of the past of Europe, of Germany, and in particular of the twentieth century with its myths, depravities, idealism and horror hangs in the air around the old Hinterhofs and deserted railway stations. No other city has played such a part in the tides