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.
阿登纳和艾哈德一手创造的“经济奇迹”使西德对东德人的吸引力急剧增加。尽管1957年通过的东德法律规定,未经允许逃离东德者将被处以3年的监禁,但截止到1961年,陆续有近300万东德人逃亡西方,占东德总人口的18%,其中大多数是医生、教授、工程师和政府官员。为了制止外逃...
評分1989年,柏林墙塌了;1990年,两德统一了。假如故事到此戛然而止,我们可以说两德人民迎来了一个宛如童话般的结局:“从此王子与公主在一起过上了幸福的生活。” 可惜我们要纪念的并非柏林墙倒塌那一天,而是柏林墙倒塌二十周年,也就不得不焚琴煮鹤般的把“王子与公...
評分1989年,柏林墙塌了;1990年,两德统一了。假如故事到此戛然而止,我们可以说两德人民迎来了一个宛如童话般的结局:“从此王子与公主在一起过上了幸福的生活。” 可惜我们要纪念的并非柏林墙倒塌那一天,而是柏林墙倒塌二十周年,也就不得不焚琴煮鹤般的把“王子与公...
評分《柏林墙》中的一段“东柏林的群众兴奋地狂呼着涌向柏林墙,而旁边的警察、官员无动于衷”,揭露了德国的百姓不认同德国这样的社会主义,德国统一社会党在发展社会主义方面有什么失误?其实失误很多。主要是经济没搞好,而这也有多方面的原因。 东部经济没有搞好,有经...
評分no myth...
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so far so good
评分the theft of hope
评分no myth...
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