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By Frederick Taylor
Harper Perennial
Released: 2008-05-27
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ON the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism that stood for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity. In this captivating work, sure to be the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor weaves together official history, archival materials, and personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall's rise and fall. |
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By Michael Meyer
Scribner
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ON THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, MICHAEL MEYER PROVIDES A RIVETING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE THAT BRILLIANTLY REWRITES OUR CONVENTIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE COLD WAR CAME TO AN END AND HOLDS IMPORTANT LESSONS FOR AMERICA'S CURRENT GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES.
" Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" President Ronald Reagan's famous exhortation when visiting Berlin in 1987 has long been widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The United States won, so this version of history goes, because Ronald Reagan stood firm against the USSR; American resoluteness brought the evil empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, who was there at the time as a Newsweek bureau chief, begs to differ. In this extraordinarily compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989, he shows that American intransigence was only one of many factors that provoked world-shaking change. Meyer draws together breathtakingly vivid, on-the-ground accounts of the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin. But the most important events, Meyer contends, occurred secretly, in the heroic stands taken by individuals in the thick of the struggle, leaders such as poet and playwright Vaclav Havel in Prague; the Baltic shipwright Lech Walesa; the quietly determined reform prime minister in Budapest, Miklos Nemeth; and the man who privately realized that his empire was already lost, and decided -- with courage and intelligence -- to let it go in peace,Soviet general secretary of the communist party, Mikhail Gorbachev. Reporting for Newsweek from the frontlines in Eastern Europe, Meyer spoke to these players and countless others. Alongside their deliberate interventions were also the happenstance and human error of history that are always present when events accelerate to breakneck speed. Meyer captures these heady days in all of their rich drama and unpredictability. In doing so he provides not just a thrilling chronicle of the most important year of the twentieth century but also a crucial refutation of American political mythology and a triumphal misunderstanding of history that seduced the United States into many of the intractable conflicts it faces today. The Year That Changed the World will change not only how we see the past, but also our understanding of America's future. |
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By W.R. Smyser
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Kennedy and the Berlin Wall tells the full story of the Berlin Crisis that riveted international attention and brought the world to the brink of nuclear warfare as Soviet and American tanks opposed each other on the streets of Berlin. Drawing on his own experience as an American diplomat in Germany during the period, as well as on recently opened archives, Smyser tells the story of how the fate of a city affected national politics as well as geopolitics. |
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By William F Buckley Jr.
Wiley
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"Eloquent . . . immensely readable . . . the saga of the victory of capitalism over the brutal and irrational fraud that was state socialism."
—The Baltimore Sun "Buckley's lucid account celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit and the will to achieve freedom."
—Publishers Weekly "This is a small masterpiece of the narrative tradition. The Fall of the Berlin Wall keep[s] readers turning the page."
—National Review "[A] great narrative of democratic survival and democratic victory."
—The Washington Times The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. In The Fall of the Berlin Wall, renowned author and conservative pioneer William F. Buckley Jr. explains why the wall was built, reveals its devastating impact on the lives of people on both sides, and provides a riveting account of the events that led to the wall's destruction and the end of the Cold War. |
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By Anna Funder
Granta UK
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In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In a country where the headquarters of the secret police can become a museum literally overnight and one in 50 East Germans were informing on their fellow citizens, there are thousands of captivating stories. Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, who as a 16-year-old might have started World War III; she visits the man who painted the line which became the Berlin Wall; and she gets drunk with the legendary "Mik Jegger" of the east, once declared by the authorities to his face to "no longer to exist." Each enthralling story depicts what it's like to live in Berlin as the city knits itself back together—or fails to. This is a history full of emotion, attitude, and complexity. |
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Oxford University Press, USA
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The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world, initiating a stunningly rapid power-shift that would bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union, give rise to new democracies in Eastern Europe, and end the Cold War superpower conflict that had governed international relations for nearly a half century. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event.
Now, from the vantage of the twentieth anniversary of the wall's collapse, The Fall of the Berlin Wall takes a fresh look at how the leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and China--viewed the world in the aftermath of this momentous event. A more complete picture emerges of what these leaders thought as the events were unfolding and what they anticipated would happen next. Jeffrey Engel, who contributes a chronological narrative of this tumultuous period, has brought together preeminent scholars, each offering a substantive essay: Melvyn Leffler on the United States, Chen Jian on China, James Sheehan on Germany and Europe, and William Taubman and Svetlana Savranskaya on the Soviet Union. These historians reinterpret the meaning of 1989 in the context of global history in the late 20th and early 21st century and explore such questions as why communism failed in Europe, why China took a different route following the turmoil of Tiananmen Square, and why the peace of 1989 might well prove illusory.
For general readers, scholars and students alike, The Fall of the Berlin Wall will serve as a profoundly illuminating interpretation of this transformative period. |
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By Robert Elmer
Zonderkidz
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In book two of this series, we fast-forward to 1961, when Cold War tensions peak and the Berlin Wall traps Sabine and her friend Willi on the wrong side of the city. Though handicapped by childhood polio, Sabine (Erich's younger half-sister) learns to trade weakness for trust when she discovers a forgotten underground bunker. In the end it could take them under the wall to freedom, or into more danger than ever. |
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By Anna Funder
Granta Books
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In this anecdotal history, Anna Funder tells extraordinary stories from the underbelly of the most perfected surveillance state of all time: the former East Germany. Stasiland is a powerful account of the courage of those who withstood the dictatorship and the consequences for those who collaborated: from Miriam, a 16-year-old who failed a desperate attempt to scale the Wall, to an ex-Stasi cartographer living in an apartment lined with propaganda. This is a lyrical and gripping debut novel. |
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By Serge Schmemann
Kingfisher
Released: 2007-10-15
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Now in paperback, current events get in-depth treatment in this exciting series produced in collaboration with the New York Times. First-person narratives by the world-renowned newspaper's award-winning journalists tell the stories behind the headlines.
This compelling account carries readers back to Berlin, Germany, in 1989, on the night that the Berlin Wall fell. From the moment his East German assistant bursts into his West Berlin office to tell him that the wall is open, Serge Schmemann is in the thick of things, taking readers along with him as he witnesses the celebration when the wall is opened and the dramatic changes that follow. From this unique perspective, readers learn about the Berlin Wall, its construction, and what it symbolized to the world. |
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By A T Maher
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Terrorists, spies, a litany of lies and in the end one after the other dies.
The center piece of the story is a Trio of German (RAF) terrorists who have been given sanctuary in East Berlin by the East German Secret Police (Stasi). They’re a ‘mixed bag’ of dangerously, deranged individuals. Two are men: Erich and Martin. The woman, Karla, is the terror cells leader. Their story begins on a cold and drizzly November 9th, 1989 at “Ground Zero” of the confusion surrounding the sudden “fall of the Berlin Wall”. The Trio’s hideaway is crumbling and so are their ideals. Escape becomes necessity. They decide to flee immediately. Karla is convinced they must commit a spectacular assassination. Outwardly, she bases her conviction on the need to stop the Communist meltdown. Really, it is a combination of death wish and an attempt to end a horrid existence in ‘flaming glory’. Karla coerces the other two terrorists to join with her.
A high ranking Stasi officer, Colonel Bruckner, wants to stop the Trio. They’re a threat to his future. Defecting to the Americans is Bruckner’s goal. He decides to eliminate them or ‘come clean’ to the CIA about their existence and plans.
The CIA makes the Stasi man an offer, but Bruckner exposes the Trio. The confession ushers in dramatic changes for Bruckner and the CIA. Karla’s targets are all prominent persons, including the American ambassador to Germany. Washington decides that a top agent, Weekly, who is in Berlin, should hunt down the Trio. Weekly is a disturbed and disturbing man. He is a shrewd fanatic who decides Bruckner is a necessary evil for the man-hunt. The two spies immediately develop a mean dislike for one another.
The KGB is the real supporter of the Trio at a time when Mikhail Gorbachev is preaching Glasnost. Weekly knows that and attempts to blackmail the KGB into assisting him. The Trio soon finds itself being hunted by rogue elements of three secret services: the CIA, KGB and Stasi.
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