Roger Moorhouse has a deep knowledge of Wartime Germany… Moorhouse has a nice eye for social detail
Max Hastings, The Sunday Times

A well-researched, fluently-written and utterly absorbing account of what life (and, so very often) death was like for ordinary Germans in the capital of Hitler’s Reich during the Second World War. The Berliners’ capacity for suffering, for sacrifice, for self-delusion, but also astonishingly for love - and even on occasion humour - is superbly evoked by Moorhouse’s cornucopia of new information.
Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War,

Berlin at War is a well-researched and beautifully composed account, vividly recreating those years of Nazi arrogance, oppression, and corruption, that ended in such terrible destruction and civilian suffering
Antony Beevor,

As a leading historian of modern Germany, Moorhouse has chronicled a largely unknown story with scholarship, narrative verve and, at times, an awful, harrowing immediacy
Ian Thompson, Sunday Telegraph

Moorhouse’s evocative social history of Hitler’s capital brings all these aromas together, along with the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Germans who lived here
Keith Lowe, Telegraph

Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war…Moorhouse’s meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail
C J Schuler, Independent

The greatest achievement of Moorhouse’s book is that it manages to capture the complexities and contradictions of life in Hitler’s Germany, illuminating the experiences of those who were victims, perpetrators or both. In doing so it provides something rare: a popular-history account that will satisfy both general readers and professional historians
Irish Times

Few books on the war genuinely increase the sum of our collective knowledge of this exhaustively covered period, but this one does…By trawling through the complex, often deeply morally compromised personal stories of many survivors, Moorhouse has produced new insights into the way ordinary Berliners tried to escape the disastrous ill-fortune of living in the belly of the beast
Andrew Roberts, Financial Times

Roger Moorhouse’s measured, sympathetic book offers a fascinating corrective to that Anglocentric perspective…After reading this thorough and engaging book you’ll never be able to watch a war film or even a World Cup football match in quite the same way
James Delingpole, Mail on Sunday

Moorhouse's evocative social history...brings...the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings of the ordinary Germans who lived here
Telegraph

Few books on the war genuinely increase the sum of our collective knowledge... but this one does
Financial Times

A finely observed social history of Berliners during the war
Sunday Times

Roger Moorhouse has marshalled an impressive range of primary sources including newspaper reports, official documents, memoirs, diaries and interviews with the dwindling band of survivors to create a gripping panorama of Berlin at war…Moorhouse’s meticulous and painstaking research matched by his narrative verve, wide ranging sympathy and eye for telling detail
CJ Schuler, The Independent

Measured, sympathetic... a fascinating corrective...thorough and engaging
Mail on Sunday

fascinating
The Oldie

the greatest achievement of Moorhouse’s book is that it manages to capture the complexities and contradictions of life in Hitler’s Germany, illuminating the experiences of those who were victims, perpetrators or both. In doing so it provides something rare: a popular-history account that will satisfy both general readers and professional historians.
Irish Times

There is a haunting quality to Roger Moorhouse’s Berlin at War, the ominous drumbeat of approaching nemesis for ordinary civilians who, since 1933, had witnessed and participated in the rise of the Nazi cult.
Sinclair McKay, Daily Telegraph, Christmas round up

The searing experiences of Berliners are brought to life through often deeply morally compromised personal stories.
Financial Times, Christmas round up

Moorhouse has a deep knowledge of wartime Germany...he has a nice eye for social detail
Sunday Times

Moorhouse has written an extraordinarily detailed account of ordinary life in Berlin during the Second World War
Sunday Herald

Moorhouse's cinematic account plunges the reader into the Nazi capital
Christopher Hirst, Independent and i