How long does it take to read A Woman in Berlin?
Anonymous, Marta Hillers
A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous, Marta Hillers takes about 5 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1954. 291 pages, about 80,025 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Woman in Berlin is a memoir first published anonymously in 1954 by a German journalist. It covers the period from 20 April to 22 June 1945, when the Red Army captures Berlin and occupies it. The narrator lives amid bombing, hunger, and long hours in basement shelters with her neighbors, while ordinary city life collapses around them. When Soviet soldiers arrive, the book records the widespread rape of civilians, including the author herself. In an unsentimental tone, it examines how a woman thinks practically about getting through such conditions in a defeated city.
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Subjects: World War, Women, Biography, German Personal narratives, Berlin, Battle of
