Albert Einstein forever changed our understanding of space and time. Thomas de Padova's biography presents Einstein's General Theory of Relativity in a completely new light. Berlin 1914: Einstein's world is shattering. His marriage to Mileva is failing, and Germany enthusiastically enters the war. Colleagues like Max Planck sign a racist appeal to the cultural world, while his friend Fritz Haber conducts a brutal gas war on both fronts. In strikingly clear prose, de Padova shows for the first time how Einstein became a passionate pacifist during his early years in Berlin—and how he reinvented physics amidst a collapsing world.