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Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
Edith Sheffer
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Description for Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain
Paperback. Examines "Burned Bridge," the intersection between two sister cities in East and West Germany, and reveals how the daily adjustments of anxious residents shaped the barrier that divided them. Num Pages: 384 pages, 34 halftones. BIC Classification: HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's unprecedented, in-depth account focuses on Burned Bridge-the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each ... Read more
The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's unprecedented, in-depth account focuses on Burned Bridge-the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199314614
SKU
V9780199314614
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About Edith Sheffer
Edith Sheffer is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.
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A vast amount of research.
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