Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers

The book focuses extensively, almost exclusively, on the years 1900-1945. Since it is arranged not chronologically but geographically, focusing on certain districts and their neighborhoods, we have to relive these same 45 years ad nauseam. There is more to Berlin's history than this, but you wouldn't know it from this book.

My advice is that if you cream over WWI and II and/or the Weimar Era grab this book because you'll love it; if you feel ambivalent about these years give it a read, but only in small doses otherwise the continuous time loop will be maddening; and if you are bored to tears by the thought of yet another book about Germany's 1900-1945 years, then this book is not for you.