1st Edition
Divided Village: The Cold War in the German Borderlands
By Jason B. Johnson
Copyright 2017
244 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
244 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north."
The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of... Read more
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Eerie
- Calamity, 1945-52
- Elimination, 1952
- Fighting Mood, 1952-60
- Admonition, 1960-61
- Bleak, 1961-89
- Ass of the World, 1961-89
Epilogue: Dream
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Jason B. Johnson is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Trinity University, USA.
