The Berlin Wall

Frederick Taylor is a British novelist and historian specialising in modern German history.He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford University. He did postgraduate work at Sussex University on the rise of the extreme right in Germany in the early twentieth century. Before embarking on the series of historical monographs for which he is best known, he translated The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941 into English and wrote novels set in Germany.

出版者:Harper Perennial

作者:Frederick Taylor

页数:528

出版时间:2008-06-01

价格:USD 15.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780060786144

图书标签:历史政治德国TheBerlinWall1989柏林墙History柏林

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 cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism—totalitarianism and freedom—that would stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity. Many brave people risked their lives to overcome this lethal barrier, and some paid the ultimate price.

In this captivating work, sure to be the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor weaves together official history, archival materials, and personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall's rise and fall, from the postwar political tensions that created a divided Berlin to the internal and external pressures that led to the Wall's demise. In addition, he explores the geopolitical ramifications as well as the impact the wall had on ordinary lives that is still felt today. For the first time the entire world faced the threat of imminent nuclear apocalypse, a fear that would be eased only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on the historic night of November 9, 1989.

Gripping and authoritative, The Berlin Wall is the first comprehensive account of a divided city and its people in a time when the world seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.

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正在读这本书，很厚实，物有所值。而且故事描写的非常精彩，对柏林墙的了解逐步加深。 还没有看完，看完后会写详细的书评~

对于柏林墙倒塌之后出生的这代人来说，柏林墙似乎从来都是一个宣传“自由”的阵地。它曾经的存在是野蛮而反人类的，有关它的故事全部围绕着“逃”这一个字的主题，它记载了整整一个时代德国人的血泪史，而最终又是人类对自由的无尽向往将它推倒。弗雷德里克•泰勒先生的这本...  

正在读这本书，很厚实，物有所值。而且故事描写的非常精彩，对柏林墙的了解逐步加深。 还没有看完，看完后会写详细的书评~

正在读这本书，很厚实，物有所值。而且故事描写的非常精彩，对柏林墙的了解逐步加深。 还没有看完，看完后会写详细的书评~

柏林墙倒下了，东德人终于获得了他们梦寐以求的自由，然而，类似的悲剧却并没有在这里地球上结束，我们看到在远隔德国万里重洋的另外一个国家，依旧有一堵用来对付自己的百姓的墙巍峨耸立着，唯一的区别是，大多数人看不到甚至不知道这堵墙。  

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