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Beyond the Wall: Germany's Road to Unification (A Twentieth Century Fund book)
Beyond the Wall Germany's Road to Unification - A Twentieth Century Fund book Author:Elizabeth Pond Elizabeth Pond weaves together in riveting prose the strands of events that are usually recounted separately. Rather than looking just at the East German revolt or the process of unification that created a new nation, she traces the interaction of these events and their diplomatic consequences for Europe. The book contains a wealth of new inform... more »ation from hundreds of interviews with top German and American policymakers, East German Politburo members, and ordinary East German citizens. It also incorporates up-to-date research on such topics as the Stasi secret police and the midlife crisis of the German left. And it concludes with an assessment of the role of the United States and a united Germany in the new European order.« less