After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present, Hardcover - Hope M. Harrison

The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sourc...

After the Berlin Wall tells the inside story of an international financial institution, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)...

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The story of two decades of a unique human experience: putting the two Germanies back together again

DescriptionAn Inspiring True Story about One Family's Escape from Behind the Berlin Wall Peter was born on the east side of Germany, the side that ...

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High-drama history, describing moment-by-moment the fall of the Berlin Wall

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First published in 1773, and reissued here in its 1775 second edition, this account by Charles Burney (1726-1814) traces one of the journeys he und...

DescriptionAs deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide--a period of political wranglin...

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This second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers a comprehensive overview of German history from its transformation as a loose patchwork o...

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The generation of young men and women who joined the British Army during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an unprecedented pe...

'You're good at languages. You go into the Diplomatic', pronounced the father of the teenage Michael Burton. And so began a diplomatic career that ...

A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence.

Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, Berlin has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants...

The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Ho...

As one of the most visited museums in Germany's capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish histo...

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What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are...

DescriptionThe Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins--and explain how the past shaped the nati...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 1 MapsNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 21Cover type: Hardback...

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This book illustrates the battles by the western Allies to liberate western Europe during the Second World War and follows the fighting, month by m...

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Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

A riveting account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...