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Dec 20, 2021 · The Berlin Wall was the most iconic symbol of the Cold War, and its fall in 1989 was a momentous event that marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War. The history and legacy of the Berlin Wall are complex and fascinating, and this book explores it all.
Nov 8, 2019 · The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago this week. These brilliant books about the Cold War offer not just an insight into life behind the Iron Curtain but salient lessons for the modern world.
Nov 5, 2019 · A “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.
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- Olivia Giovetti
- Brigitte Reimann, I Have No Regrets: Diaries, 1955-1963. Last month’s publication of Brigitte Reimann’s diaries by Seagull Books finally brings this early and prolific author of the GDR into English.
- Ulrich Plenzdorf, The New Sorrows of Young W. Before Adam Sackler, there was Edgar Wibeau, the “Young W.” of Ulrich Plenzdorf’s explosive 1972 novel. Edgar is a 17-year-old model student turned high school dropout who runs away to Berlin, holing up in an abandoned garden shack.
- Christa Wolf, Cassandra. Forced to submit their manuscripts for government approval before publication, many GDR authors turned to metaphor to vent their frustrations with the state while slipping past the censors.
- Anna Funder, Stasiland. Funder’s Stasiland is an anomaly on this list, written by an Australian who lived in West Berlin in the 1990s. Still, being a secondhand witness to history is a role that more of us will face as the fall of the Berlin Wall passes into its 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversaries.
- Orrin Grey
- Michael Beschloss on the Cold War. By Michael Beschloss. In these three riveting books, the man who has been called the “nation’s leading presidential historian” takes us through some of the most pivotal moments of the Cold War, from the complex relationship between Kennedy and Khrushchev in The Crisis Years to the negotiations between Bush and Gorbachev after the fall of the Berlin Wall in At the Highest Levels.
- The Falcon and the Snowman. By Robert Lindsey. It wouldn’t be a list of Cold War books without at least one or two books about spies, and this “absolutely smashing real-life spy story” (The New York Times Book Review) is one of the most gripping.
- Into Tibet. By Thomas Laird. We tend to think of the Cold War as being between America, Britain, and the USSR—but it had far-reaching implications all over the world.
- Empire of Secrets. By Calder Walton. The Daily Telegraph called it a “gripping account of British Intelligence during the last days of Empire.” Using newly declassified documents and personal papers, Calder Walton tells the story of the secrets, sources, and methods of British Intelligence throughout the Cold War.
Nov 3, 2014 · Berlin Wall. Blog Post by James M. Lindsay. November 3, 2014 9:30 am (EST) Sunday marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. For those of us who grew up during the...
May 14, 2019 · The Berlin Airlift and Berlin Wall: The History and Legacy of the Fight Over the Occupied City during the Cold War chronicles the history that led to the Soviet blockade, the famous relief efforts undertaken to beat it, and the construction of the 20th century’s most notorious wall.
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