Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. About the Author
4. List of Illustrations
5. Maps
6. Preface: The City in Time
7. PART ONE: THE APPROACHING FURY
   1. 1. The Days Before
   2. 2. In the Forests of the Gauleiter
   3. 3. The Dethroning of Reason
   4. 4. Art and Degeneracy
   5. 5. The Glass Man and the Physicists
   6. 6. ‘A Sort of Little London’
   7. 7. The Science of Doomsday
   8. 8. The Correct Atmospheric Conditions
   9. 9. Hosing Out
   10. 10. The Devil Will Get No Rest
8. PART TWO: SCHRECKENSNACHT
   1. 11. The Day of Darkness
   2. 12. Five Minutes Before the Sirens
   3. 13. Into the Abyss
   4. 14. Shadows and Light
   5. 15. 10.03 p.m.
   6. 16. The Burning Eyes
   7. 17. Midnight
   8. 18. The Second Wave
   9. 19. From Among the Dead
   10. 20. The Third Wave
9. PART THREE: AFTERSHOCK
   1. 21. Dead Men and Dreamers
   2. 22. The Radiant Tombs
   3. 23. The Meanings of Terror
   4. 24. The Music of the Dead
   5. 25. Recoil
   6. 26. ‘The Stalinist Style’
   7. 27. Beauty and Remembrance
10. Illustrations
11. Acknowledgements
12. Selected Bibliography
13. Notes
14. Index
15. Copyright