Frederick Taylor is a British novelist and historian specialising in modern German history.
He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford University. He did postgraduate work at Sussex University on the rise of the extreme right in Germany in the early twentieth century. Before embarking on the series of historical monographs for which he is best known, he translated The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941 into English and wrote novels set in Germany.
On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly cut a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism—totalitarianism and freedom—that would stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity. Many brave people risked their lives to overcome this lethal barrier, and some paid the ultimate price.
In this captivating work, sure to be the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor weaves together official history, archival materials, and personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall's rise and fall, from the postwar political tensions that created a divided Berlin to the internal and external pressures that led to the Wall's demise. In addition, he explores the geopolitical ramifications as well as the impact the wall had on ordinary lives that is still felt today. For the first time the entire world faced the threat of imminent nuclear apocalypse, a fear that would be eased only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on the historic night of November 9, 1989.
Gripping and authoritative, The Berlin Wall is the first comprehensive account of a divided city and its people in a time when the world seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.
2009年11月,柏林的天空异常的安静,在这里读了4年书的我有幸赶上了柏林墙倒塌20周年的纪念活动,中国的元旦前我回到了北京,更加幸运的读到了《柏林墙》中文版,这是一部讲述柏林墙的兴建与倒掉的作品。在西方的文学影视作品中,柏林墙从来都是绝望、英勇的东德人逃离“魔掌...
評分正在读这本书,很厚实,物有所值。而且故事描写的非常精彩,对柏林墙的了解逐步加深。 还没有看完,看完后会写详细的书评~
評分那么好的民族几十年就毁了 在尤利亚眼里,柏林墙的倒塌到底意味着什么,她没有概念,要理解这些她还实在太小,那年她才7岁。可当他们一家终于随着人流踏上西柏林土地时,奶奶和妈妈俩人突然跪在地上相拥着抱头痛哭的场景,却把她给吓坏了,愣愣的看看她们不知所措。如今...
評分柏林墙倒下了,东德人终于获得了他们梦寐以求的自由,然而,类似的悲剧却并没有在这里地球上结束,我们看到在远隔德国万里重洋的另外一个国家,依旧有一堵用来对付自己的百姓的墙巍峨耸立着,唯一的区别是,大多数人看不到甚至不知道这堵墙。
評分正在读这本书,很厚实,物有所值。而且故事描写的非常精彩,对柏林墙的了解逐步加深。 还没有看完,看完后会写详细的书评~
像小說一樣緊張生動,並且充滿瞭身為英國佬的必要的自嘲。頻頻為這人間苦難撒熱淚,幸虧結局是個幸福結局——總之還是哭瞭。
评分像小說一樣緊張生動,並且充滿瞭身為英國佬的必要的自嘲。頻頻為這人間苦難撒熱淚,幸虧結局是個幸福結局——總之還是哭瞭。
评分the theft of hope
评分What belongs together will grow together.
评分What belongs together will grow together.
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