This copy is a Services edition, `produced for the Services Central Book Depot...for circulation to the fighting services of the allied nations'.

cabaret was based on this. but not much. sally bowles and the landlady are the only characters.
good portrait of poverty and the poverty of germany. ( )

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Sequel to Mr. Norris Changes Trains, with more detailed observations and stories of Berlin just before the institution of the Hitler regime. "From the tenements and night-bars of the slums to the fantastic villas of the very rich: the extraordinary, the tragic and the ridiculous are blended on almost every page." -jacket notes from the Penguin Modern Classics edition. A fascinating read. It ends with a tense and disturbing mood, as Isherwood leaves Berlin and the Nazis are taking over. We realize that so many of the people he describes will not survive, and that way of life will disappear. ( )