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.
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.
發表於2024-09-28
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2009年11月,柏林的天空異常的安靜,在這裏讀瞭4年書的我有幸趕上瞭柏林牆倒塌20周年的紀念活動,中國的元旦前我迴到瞭北京,更加幸運的讀到瞭《柏林牆》中文版,這是一部講述柏林牆的興建與倒掉的作品。在西方的文學影視作品中,柏林牆從來都是絕望、英勇的東德人逃離“魔掌...
評分阿登納和艾哈德一手創造的“經濟奇跡”使西德對東德人的吸引力急劇增加。盡管1957年通過的東德法律規定,未經允許逃離東德者將被處以3年的監禁,但截止到1961年,陸續有近300萬東德人逃亡西方,占東德總人口的18%,其中大多數是醫生、教授、工程師和政府官員。為瞭製止外逃...
評分在上世紀80年代初,中國人去民主德國,因為經費所限,許多人乘火車。由北京齣發,經過莫斯科到柏林,一路上的“社會主義陣營”得走九天。從車窗看去,當時外濛古比內濛古好,在內濛“風吹草低看牛羊”的景象很難看到瞭,草場遭到瞭嚴重地破壞,在外濛卻能夠看到。進入前蘇...
評分 評分2009年11月,柏林的天空異常的安靜,在這裏讀瞭4年書的我有幸趕上瞭柏林牆倒塌20周年的紀念活動,中國的元旦前我迴到瞭北京,更加幸運的讀到瞭《柏林牆》中文版,這是一部講述柏林牆的興建與倒掉的作品。在西方的文學影視作品中,柏林牆從來都是絕望、英勇的東德人逃離“魔掌...
圖書標籤: 曆史 政治 德國 TheBerlinWall 1989 柏林牆 History 柏林
像小說一樣緊張生動,並且充滿瞭身為英國佬的必要的自嘲。頻頻為這人間苦難撒熱淚,幸虧結局是個幸福結局——總之還是哭瞭。
評分the theft of hope
評分no myth...
評分so far so good
評分What belongs together will grow together.
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