Inside the forgotten ghost stations of a oncedivided. The fall of the berlin wall turning points in history book 20. Top 10 books about the berlin wall books the guardian. West berlin was a political enclave which comprised the western part of berlin during the years of the cold war. Gunter grass is a nobel prizewinning german author who predominantly wrote during germany s post war era.
A german town remembers life on the cold wars edge. Sandwiched between alliedoccupied west germany and the soviet bloc, the gdr became a focal point for cold war tensions and intrigues. Architecture, politics, and identity in divided berlin on jstor. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author. Stargardts germans fight their war strictly on an eastwest axis. Try searching on jstor for other items related to this book. The location of germany as the gateway between east and west europe made it the ideal place for these political struggles to occur.
Sheffers meticulous reconstruction of life on the germangerman frontier sheds. On a beautiful spring afternoon up at the old observation post alpha, birds flit and dart where reconnaissance planes once followed the jagged border between west and east germany so closely that. Its the one iain macgregor describes in this lively book of anecdotes and. East and west germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous berlin wall, which separated lovers, friends, families, coworkers, and compatriots. Korean and vietnam wars, the berlin blockade, cuban missile crisis. This book helps us understand not just the trauma of the cold war but also the. Since the fall of the berlin wall and the reunification of germany in 1989, sites associated with the 40yearlong cold war and the division of the country into.
The cold war and confrontation between east and west 19471991. The acrimony between the eastern and western cold war powers had been. Beside the autobahn, a coldwar memory lane the new york. This animated map series covers the history of the cold war and the confrontation between the east and the west from 19471991. During the cold war, germany became the center for all the tensions between democracy and communism.
For 40 years, the cold war dominated the world stage. The cold war broadcast that gave east german dissidents a. When germany was divided during the cold war, nature took control of the deserted border area. West berliners peer through the wall into the eastern sector near. Examples of specific topics addressed include the teutonic order in the development. Brookings experts contributed to this select reading list of books and articles that. The editors present a collection of 23 historical papers exploring relationships between the germans necessarily adopting different senses of the term for different periods or different topics and their immediate neighbors to the east. In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the german democratic republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the nonwhite world.
This rich collection of stories from cold war berlin captures the citys many. Spam or selfpromotional the list is spam or selfpromotional. Top 10 books about the berlin wall as the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall approaches, here are 10 books that best illustrate the damage it caused. The german war, by nicholas stargardt the new york times. Inside the forgotten ghost stations of a oncedivided berlin.
Taylor doesnt omit the citizens of berlin, east and west. The eras discussed range from the middle ages to european integration. Cnn berlin and its infamous wall are the epicenter for cold war tourism, but there are plenty of other sites around germany that portray the tension between east and west after world war ii. As a newly created nation, built atop the ruins of the nazi state, east germany became a proving ground for socialist government and policies. Ever since germany was reunified in october 1990, the hundreds of billions of dollars injected by a wealthy west into a crumpled east have seemed. Thoughtprovoking and carefully curated, the essays in this exciting collection will be indispensable for research and teaching on the history of socialist internationalism. Comrades of color is an important and original contribution to debates about the entangled histories of the second and third worlds during the cold war. On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, the daily beast sorts through the best new and old books on the cold war and the fall of communism. East germany, officially the german democratic republic was a state that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of germany was part of the eastern bloc during the cold war. Media in category maps of the cold war the following 78 files are in this category, out of 78 total. The books a must read for anyone interested in cold war history and particularly. Brookings experts reading list on the fall of the berlin wall and the. The books a must read for anyone interested in cold war history and.
On maps of east berlin, west berlin often did not appear as an adjacent. Cold war conversations podcast 4879 books 355 friends manray9 3354 books 73 friends miss m 8908 books. The cold war broadcast that gave east german dissidents a voice. Thus began the end of the cold war, including the deconstruction of the berlin. Library of congress cataloginginpublication data cmh pub 4531 carter, donald a. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. Parallels in the final years before the berlin wall fell, east germans described their grievances on cassette tapes that were. The gdr was established in the soviet zone while the federal republic of germany. The cold war, the berlin wall, and the most dangerous place. East germany had a population of just over 18 million people in 1949. If one can find fault with this book, it is for sticking too closely to the new orthodoxy of the history of world war ii.