cover image Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945

Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945

Marie Vassiltchikov. Vintage Books USA, $15.95 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-394-75777-3

Vassiltchikov, who died in 1978, kept a diary of her work at the German Foreign Ministry and with the underground resistance movement during WW II. ""A remarkable document alive with history, passion and truth,'' praised PW, ``her clear-eyed account of life in wartime Germany is gripping.'' Photos. (June)