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The Zookeepers' War - An Incredible True Story from the Cold War (Hardcover)
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The Zookeepers' War - An Incredible True Story from the Cold War (Hardcover)
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The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war,
fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. "The
liveliness of Mohnhaupt's storytelling and the wonderful
eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a
read." -Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Living in West Berlin in the
1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together
behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of
the Iron Curtain, East Berlin and its zoo were spacious and lush,
socialist utopias where everything was perfectly planned... and
then rarely completed. Berlin's two zoos in East and West quickly
became symbols of the divided city's two halves. And so no one was
terribly surprised when the head zookeepers on either side started
an animal arms race: rather than stockpiling nuclear warheads, they
competed to have the most pandas and hippos. Soon, state funds were
being diverted toward giving these new animals lavish welcomes
worthy of visiting dignitaries. West German presidential candidates
were talking about zoo policy on the campaign trail. And eventually
politicians on both side of the Wall became convinced that if their
zoo were proved to be inferior, then that would mean their
country's whole ideology was too. A quirky piece of Cold War
history unlike anything you've heard before, The Zookeepers' War is
an epic tale of desperate rivalries, human follies, and an
animal-mad city in which zookeeping became a way of continuing
politics by other means.
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