THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BEST BOOKS OF 2023: THE TIMES *
SUNDAY TIMES * FINANCIAL TIMES * INDEPENDENT 'Utterly brilliant . .
. Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential
reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe'
Julia Boyd 'One of the best young historians writing in English
today. . . Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful,
Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about
East Germany' Andrew Roberts In 1990, a country disappeared. When
the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over
forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a
new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German
identity to anything that had come before, and anything that 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 offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished
country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists
exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on
to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an
increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the
Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and
on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer
argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was
yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a
place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted
in the West. Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of
never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the
definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.
General
| Imprint: |
Penguin Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
April 2024 |
| Authors: |
Katja Hoyer
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-14-199934-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-14-199934-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780141999340 |
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