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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe Publisher Comments In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin andquot;the most dangerous place on earth.andquot; He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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From Yalta To Berlin : the Cold War Struggle Over Germany by W. R Smyser Publisher Comments The question of German unity was the most important and intractable problem to remain unsettled after World War II. W.R. Smyser explores "the German Question" and uses it to illustrate the story of how Germany was divided and then united against a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Entering Germany: 1944-1949 by Tony Vaccaro Publisher Comments Tony Vaccaro's emotional record of the breaking apart of Germany and the people left behind to pick up the pieces. Published here for the first time ever are the archives of one man who risked his life for peace in World War II and stayed in Germany... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn) by Dolores L. Augustine Publisher Comments In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology merged with a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology became an important part of East German socialist identity--crucial to how... (read more) List Price $48.75 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder Publisher Comments Funder's compelling, engaging and, at times, racy tales of life in the former East Germany . "There is much humour and even affection in her portraits" "The Guardian"... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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German Politics 1945-1995 by Peter Pulzer Publisher Comments With the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the unification of 1990 a new German state emerged--the fifth constitutional upheaval and the fourth change of frontiers in this century. This book aims to introduce the reader to the legacy that present... (read more) List Price $82.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe Publisher Comments A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. "History at its best." -Zbigniew Brzezinski "Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with many lessons for today." -Henry... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 by Frederick Taylor Publisher Comments ON the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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German Autumn by Stig Dagerman Publisher Comments In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Anonymous Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. With bald honesty and brutal lyricism (Elle), the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heart Beats on the Left by Oskar Lafontaine Publisher Comments This is the English-language edition of what has become one of the most controversial books in German politics today. Oskar Lafontaine was the leader of Germany's Social Democratic party and finance minister in Gerhard Schr?der's government until he... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 by Konrad H Jarausch Publisher Comments In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Negotiating the New Germany: Can Social Partnership Survive? by Lowell Turner Publisher Comments The reunification of Germany in 1990 juxtaposed two very different models of industrial relations. This volume assesses the results. By the late 1980s, West Germany had developed and refined a largely collaborative relationship between business and labor,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949 by Richard Reeves Publisher Comments In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II—pilots, navigators, and mechanics—who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice by Efraim Zuroff Publisher Comments Launching Operation Last Chance in 2002, Efraim Zuroff spearheaded a vast public campaign to locate and bring to justice the worst suspected Nazi criminals before ill health or death spare them from potential punishment. Zuroffs project yielded the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism & the Historians' Debate by Jurgen Habermas Publisher Comments Jurgen Habermas is well known for his scholarly works on the theoretical foundations of the human sciences.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity by Charles S Maier About the Author Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, and the author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany.... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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German Literature in a New Century: Trends, Traditions, Transitions, Transformations by Katharina Gerstenberger Publisher Comments While the first decade after the fall of the Berlin wall was marked by the challenges of unification and the often difficult process of reconciling East and West German experiences, many Germans expected that the "new century" would achieve... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $32.33 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 by Frederick Taylor Publisher Comments Gripping and authoritative, Taylors definitive work is the first comprehensive account of the most enduring symbol of the Cold War. 16-page b&w photo insert.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Candy Bombers (09 Edition) by Andrei Cherny Publisher Comments The Candy Bombers is the true tale of the ill- assorted group of castoffs and second-stringers who saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat. By feeding and supplying West Berlin by air for nearly a year, these brave men won the hearts of... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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