Benny Carlson

Berlin is a major tourist destination, a world city with a dramatic history. Many shelf meters have been written about it, not least combinations of travel guide and history book. The latest contribution of this kind is John Kampfner’s in Search of
Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City (London: Atlantic Books 2023, 400 pages). Kampfner is a British author, journalist and documentary maker with a long relationship to Berlin, originally as a correspondent in East Berlin. In recent years he has covered many miles on the streets of Berlin and spent many hours drawing
information from his wide network in the city