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Joseph Pearson

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Born

Canada

Website

https://www.josephpearson.net

Genre

Nonfiction, Fiction, History

Member Since

December 2025

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Joseph Pearson is a writer and historian, author of the books The Airlift / Sweet Victory (The History Press, Pegasus Books, 2025), My Grandfather’s Knife (The History Press, HarperCollins, 2022) and Berlin (Reaktion Press, 2017). His work has appeared in The Guardian, Lettre International, New England Review, AGNI, PRISM International, Geist and many other publications. For more than a decade, he was the author of one of Berlin’s favourite blogs, The Needle. Since 2014, he has been the essayist of the Schaubühne Theatre. He lectures in Berlin at a German university, the Barenboim-Said Akademie, and at New York University in Berlin.

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Average rating: 3.9 · 84 ratings · 28 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Grandfather's Knife: Hidden Stories from the Second World War 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweet Victory: How the Berlin Airlift Divided East and West 3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Berlin 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Grandfather's Knife: And Other Stories of War and Belongings 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Airlift: Victories, Myths, and the Berlin Blockade 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El cuchillo de mi abuelo: Historias ocultas de la segunda guerra mundial (El Tiempo Vivido) by Joseph Pearson (Goodreads Author), Luis Noriega (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars