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Author | : Joseph Kanon |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476704643 |
Targeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin.
Author | : Charlotte R. Bonelli |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300197527 |
"This remarkable collection of letters between German Jews trapped in Nazi Germany and their relatives in the United States offers rare insights into the challenges of an average American family responding to desperate requests for refuge and aid"--
Author | : Joseph Kanon |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 147670466X |
New York Times Notable Book * Named one of NPR and Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year * The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller—a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. Berlin, 1948. Almost four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment—to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? At betrayal? Survival? Murder? Joseph Kanon’s compelling thriller is a love story that brilliantly brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.
Author | : David Clay Large |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 894 |
Release | : 2007-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465010121 |
In the political history of the past century, no city has played a more prominent-though often disastrous-role than Berlin. At the same time, Berlin has also been a dynamic center of artistic and intellectual innovation. If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," Berlin was to become the signature city for the next hundred years. Once a symbol of modernity, in the Thirties it became associated with injustice and the abuse of power. After 1945, it became the iconic City of the Cold War. Since the fall of the Wall, Berlin has again come to represent humanity's aspirations for a new beginning, tempered by caution deriving from the traumas of the recent past. David Clay Large's definitive history of Berlin is framed by the two German unifications of 1871 and 1990. Between these two events several themes run like a thread through the city's history: a persistent inferiority complex; a distrust among many ordinary Germans, and the national leadership of the "unloved city's" electric atmosphere, fast tempo, and tradition of unruliness; its status as a magnet for immigrants, artists, intellectuals, and the young; the opening up of social, economic, and ethnic divisions as sharp as the one created by the Wall.
Author | : Steven Pfaff |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2006-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822337652 |
DIVA critical and comparative reexamination of the East German revolution of 1989 and its aftermath, suggesting which causal mechanisms account for the collapse of the East German state and German reunification./div
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Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Cold War |
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Author | : Richard W. Cutler |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1574888390 |
During World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, Richard W. Cutler was an officer with the elite X-2 counterintelligence branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and with its successor, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU). Counterspy offers a rare firsthand account of the secret war against Hitler and the postwar competition with the Soviets for German intelligence assets. While with X-2, Cutler analyzed the super-secret Ultra intercepts and vetted agents about to be sent into Nazi Germany. Cutler provides an insightful overview of OSS operations during the war and their contribution to the Allies' victory. This is also one of the few books to describe the role of the OSS and the SSU in the postwar occupation of Germany. Cutler's first job after the German surrender was to vet all of Allen Dulles's wartime sources inside Germany, who were aptly nicknamed the Crown Jewels. Just as the OSS was reorganized into the SSU, Cutler moved to Berlin, where his first task was to collect intelligence from former Nazis. Soon he became chief of counterespionage in Berlin. Soviet intelligence had already begun recruiting former German intelligence officers to spy on Americans, so Cutler's top priority was to uncover Soviet objectives and either neutralize or double their agents. Cutler reveals previously unpublished case histories of double agents against Soviet intelligence and details agents' recruitment, missions, methods of operation, successes and failures, and fates. All of these events are recounted against the fascinating background of postwar Germany. He provides a vivid picture of the mood of the German people, how they rationalized war guilt, and how they coped with the devastation throughout the country. With photographs and a foreword by bestselling author Joseph E. Persico (Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage), Counterspy is a unique account of espionage during the momentous years of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
Author | : Jeffrey C. Stewart |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 945 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 019508957X |
The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who mentored a generation of artists including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Nurston and promoted the work of African Americans as the quintessential creators of American modernism. This biography explores his professional and private life, including his relationships with white patrons and his lifelong search for love as a gay man.
Author | : Michael Brein, Ph.D. |
Publisher | : Michael Brein, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2013-10-03 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1886590079 |
This is the ‘full’ expanded PDF version of MIchael Brein's Travel Guide to Berlin which includes an ultra-large, zoomable official map of Berlin's subway (U-Bahn) and suburban rail (S-Bahn) system with embedded links to visitor attractions. This version of the Berlin guide is optimized for desktops and tablets. A 'lite' version ($3.99) for mobile devices is also available but without these special features of the 'full' expanded edition. Michael Brein’s Berlin Travel Guide helps you get to the city's top 50 visitor attractions easily and cheaply using Berlin’s excellent U- and S-Bahn subway/rail system. From Checkpoint Charlie to the Brandenburg Gate, with this ultra simple guide you have all you need to discover and get to Berlin’s 50 top points of interest or Berlin’s top 10 "Must See" attractions if you have limited time. The guide also helps you find the nearest subway/rail station and which lines to take; see how to exit the station and walk to the attraction; note other nearby points of interest; view the attraction's location on the official Berlin U- and S-Bahn system map; and get to attractions without needing wireless internet access. Michael Brein’s Berlin Travel Guide is compact, concise, and comprehensive and is so simple and convenient to use--it is really all you need on your mobile device to get to all of Berlin’s top sights. And since it's based on Michael Brein’s acclaimed travel guide series to sightseeing by public transportation, it's the simplest way to get around the world's big cities. Similar guides to London, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Chicago, Paris, Washington, DC, and other cities are also available, and others are planned.
Author | : Constance Hood |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014-07-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1496922042 |
Off The Tracks: A Beatnik Family Journey is a coming of age novel set in the whorl of the early 1960s, when the first cracks in an idealized American life were revealing themselves. Kate, a resourceful eleven-year old girl craves home and security. Her mother Ellie falls in love with a Beatnik and adopts his alternative lifestyle in an attempt to create a new family unit. Hilarious, poignant and sad, the characters explore alternatives to conventional relationships and identities as they travel to places that are deeply affected by Cold War events.