A book review from The Movie Snob:

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary, by Anonymous (Metropolitan Books 2005). I bought this book based on a favorable review in Entertainment Weekly and finished it in two, maybe three sittings. It is the diary of a German woman who was living in Berlin when the city fell to the Soviets in April 1945. She was a journalist, thirty years old at the time, and for roughly eight weeks she kept a journal of the experience of wartime, defeat, and conquest. First there are the air-raid sirens, the hours spent hiding in the basement while Russian bombs drop, and the omnipresent hunger from extended malnourishment. Then the city falls to the Red Army, and its soldiers loot and plunder by day and drink and prey upon the city's female population by night. Gradually, some semblance of order is restored, and the author takes her place among the forced-labor brigades organized by the conquerers. The author's clear, dispassionate prose only makes the events seem even more chilling. An excellent, phenomenal book.