Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
by Hoyer, KatjaDescription
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany (New Republic) In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country, revealing the rich political, social, and cultural landscape that existed amid oppression and hardship. Drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews and documents, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, beyond the Wall.
| Author(s): | Hoyer, Katja |
|---|---|
| Format: | Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: | 1541602579 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Publication Date: | 2023-09-05 |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Weight: | 1.74 Pounds |
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