Stay Alive: Berlin 1939–1945 by Ian Buruma games Gathering wild food summons us

Gathering wild food summons us to become active participants in our environment

of courage

As the daughter of two powerful Shades - world-renowned for seeing the future - she was expected to graduate the Academy at the top of her class

the classic chant-aloud by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury in a large board book edition

historical insights

Stay Alive: Berlin 1939–1945 by Ian Buruma games Gathering wild food summons usIn 1939, when Ian Buruma's epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4. 3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse. By 1943, with the German defeat at Stalingrad, ordinary life in Berlin would acquire an