BerlinThe Sunday Times bestselling author of Dresden on the most important city of the 20th century Berlin. Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate actsthe suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture, and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of