Death at the Berlin Wall

Zusatztext ... excellent, finely written book. Informationen zum Autor Pertti Ahonen is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Edinburgh. A native of Finland, he compelted his Ph.D. in Modern European History at Yale University in 1999, and taught at the University of Sheffield before moving to Edinburgh in 2005. He is the author of After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe, 1945-1990 (OUP, 2003) and a co-author of People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath (Berg, 2008). Klappentext Death at the Berlin Wall tells the stories of twelve individuals who lost their lives at the Wall between 1961 and 1989! and relates these tragedies to the evolving Cold War tensions between West and East Germany. Zusammenfassung Death at the Berlin Wall tells the stories of twelve individuals who lost their lives at the Wall between 1961 and 1989, and relates these tragedies to the evolving Cold War tensions between West and East Germany. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Wall Goes Up 2: The East-West Clash at Its Peak 3: Hero-Victims of the Socialist Frontier 4: Escape Tunnels, Death, and the Commemoration of the GDR's Hero-Victims 5: The Wall and the Rise of Détente 6: The Wall and Its Victims in the 1970s 7: The Wall Comes Tumbling Down 8: After the Wall

Product details

• Authors: Pertti Ahonen, Pertti (Senior Lecturer in European History; School of History Ahonen, Ahonen Pertti
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2011
• EAN: 9780199546305
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954630-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, The Cold War, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General