A guidebook for all of Germany. Lonely Planet Germany.

Neuschwanstein Castle looks out over the rolling hills of Bavaria.

The King and His Castle: Neuschwanstein tells the story of Bavarian King Ludwig, who built this castle in the 19th Century.

Looking up the Hauptstrasse, or main street, of the village of Füssen.

Teach yourself German or simply order bratwurst und pommes. Lonely Planet German Phrasebook.

Munich during Fasching, a Bavarian version of Mardi Gras.

Find your way around the the Bavarian capital with Lonely Planet Munich.

The Brandenburger Tor looked out over the Berlin Wall in 1982, separating the sectors of the East and West.

Lonely Planet Berlin, a guidebook for the city of Berlin from the premier series of budget travel books, includes information about accommodations, restaurants, things to see and do.

Berlin in early 1990: people lining up to pass through one of 22 new openings in the Wall.

From Roman times through the 1980s, the story of Berlin is told in Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin.

The Berlin Wall in 1990, with East Berlin in the distance.

Einstein in Berlin tells the story of the physicist's years in the volatile German capital, from 1914 until 1932, when he refined his theory of general relativity.

Memorial markers for those shot down trying to escape over the Berlin Wall. "Unbekannt" is the German word for Unknown, meaning the bodies were not identified.

The riveting story of Berlin during the final days of the Nazi regime. The Fall of Berlin 1945.

Tearing down the Berlin Wall, February 1990.

A photographic view of the architecture of Berlin, including the recently renovated Reichstag Building.

Tearing down the Berlin Wall, one chip of concrete at a time, February 1990.

The Writings on the Wall reveals the graffiti on the Berlin Wall, as well as the enduring human spirit, through photographs and quotations.

Swans swim along the Berlin Wall.

Testimony of the 20th Century: Before & After the Berlin Wall - a compilation of interviews with people who have shaped the transformation of Germany.

Canal in Kreuzberg with the Wall on the other side of it.

This text for children and young adults tells the story of The Fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Hochbahn, or elevated train, approaches Hallesches Tor station in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg.

This historical novel takes place in Berlin in the 1990s, with intermittent flashback to the 1930s. The Last Cemetery in Berlin: A Post-Holocaust Love Story in the Ruins of the Berlin Wall.

Along the canal in Kreuzberg.

A Mighty Fortress was the Berlin Wall - Stories of Culture, the Cold War and the Kreuzberg Kiez.

Prinzenstraße U-Bahn station in Kreuzberg. The frog awaits.

A history of Berlin, focused mainly on the 20th Century.

Early morning in Kreuzberg.

This novel delves into the German psyche in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story.

The Gedächnis Kirche, a memorial to the horrors of war, its steeple left blown off as a reminder to future generations what the results of war can be.

An architectural and cultural analysis of the urban environment of Berlin. The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape.