Gordon A. Craig
Large's ability to summon up the physical appearance and feel of this vibrant capital-its streets and railway stations and hotels and nightclubs and department stores-is remarkable. As in his Munich book, Large demonstrates in these pages that he is as good a ranconteur as he is a historian.
Peter Fritzsche
A metropolis of astonishing subversion, horror, and ingenuity, a capital of ideological experimentation, racial injustice, and democratic new beginnings, Berlin is the audacious, craved city of modern times, and David Clay Large the star reporter at its city desk.
Peter Hayes
This book is an absorbing, penetrating, and-in the best sense of the word-entertaining exploration of Berlin's turbulent modern history. Both novice and specialist will learn much from it-and be delighted by the author's wide-ranging knowledge and stylistic gifts.
Fritz Stern
Drawing successfully on a wide range of sources David Clay Large's Berlin gives a vivid picture of a city alternating between dynamic growth and destruction, including views of its politics and culture, its urban landscape and its international setting. Admirably broad and informative.
Niall Ferguson
David Clay Large has written a vivid and compelling history of the city which was in many ways the fulcrum of the twentieth century. From German unification in 1871 to reunification in 1989, he captures the extraordinary vitality of the city and inimitable black humor of the Berliners. As Large leads you down those vice-ridden, history-strewn streets, you can almost smell the intoxicating - in both senses - 'Berliner Luft'.
(Niall Ferguson, Oxford University, author of The Pity of War)
Peter Gay
There are several good books on modern Berlin, but none I know has quite the authority and flair of David Clay Large's Berlin. It shows not only an intimate acquaintance with the literature but with the city as well, and it speaks with equal felicity about politics and art, anti-Semitism and democratic forces. (Peter Gay, Director, Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library)