📗 Libro en inglés BEYOND THE WALL

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES SUNDAY TIMES TELEGRAPH SPECTATOR PROSPECT Utterly brilliant Authoritative lively and profoundly human it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post World War II Europe Julia Boyd One of the best young historians writing in English today Well researched well written and profoundly insightful Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany Andrew RobertsIn 1990 a country disappeared When the iron curtain fell East Germany simply ceased to be For over forty years from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before and anything that exists today Socialist solidarity secret police central planning barbed wire this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics In Beyond the Wall acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create first under the watchful eye of Stalin and then in an increasingly distinctive German fash