Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin - Behind Enemy Lines

As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Assessing the licit and the illicit, the book stresses the messy and entwined nature of this war of a thousand cuts / miniscule salami slices.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE: A MESSY AND ENTANGLED BORDER COMPLEX
1) Brinkmanship and Intransigence at the Frontier
2) Enclaves and Exclaves
3) S-Bahn Incidents
PART TWO: SHADOW-BOXING FEINTS AND REAL INCURSIONS
4) The Paramilitary Response to Threatened Invasions
5) Policing Demonstrations and Protests near the Border
PART THREE: CONTAGIOUS CAPITALISM AND IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION
6) Illicit Smuggling
7) Wanderers Between Two Worlds
PART FOUR: COVERT WARFARE IN COLD-WAR BERLIN
8) The Murky World of Espionage
9) The Art of Kidnapping
10) Impact of the Berlin Wall
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Mark Fenemore is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having completed a PhD on East German youth subcultures at University College London, supervised by Professor Mary Fulbrook, he has worked on a series of projects relating to gender, sexuality, mass culture, espionage and policing, with a particular focus on divided, cold-war Berlin.

Summary

As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Assessing the licit and the illicit, the book stresses the messy and entwined nature of this war of a thousand cuts / miniscule salami slices.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Fenemore, Mark (Manchester Metropolitan University Fenemore, Fenemore Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367194413
• ISBN: 978-0-367-19441-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Berlin, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Germany, HISTORY / General, c 1950 to c 1959, The Cold War, C 1945 To C 1960, Cold wars and proxy conflicts