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Berlin Book One: City of Stones by Jason Lutes

5.0

Very dense with specific details, this is the first of three graphic novel collections which covers the unrest in Germany's Weimer Republic between the wars. Unemployment is rampant, there is the romance of art student Marthe Muller & journalist Kurt Severing with his mounting angst over the future of Germany.Set between Sept. 1928 & May Day, 1929, it veers between the Reds (communists), the Brownshirts, (the rising Nazi party) & the republic's own police brutality and concludes with the May Day massacre of 1929. Not for the faint hearted, but worth the view.