During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin. It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to a divided Berlin and unleashed an East-West crisis, which lasted until ...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克·泰勒，曾在艾尔斯伯里文法学校受教，在牛津大学研读历史和现代语言学。在苏塞克斯大学攻读硕士学位期间，获得大众奖学金。做过出版商，创作过四部小说，编辑并翻译了《戈培尔日记1939-1941》；畅销书《德累斯顿：1954年2月13日，星期二》的作者。

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 phy...(展开全部)

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 phy...(展开全部)

A lively account of the 1936 Olympics told through the voices and stories of those who witnessed it, from an award-winning historian and biographer Berlin 1936 takes the reader through the sixteen days of the Olympiad, describing the events in the German capital through the eyes of a select cast of characters--Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, sportsmen and journalists, write...(展开全部)

作者簡介： 彼得．施奈德（Peter Schneider） 彼得．施耐德於一九四〇年出生於北德的呂北克市（Lübeck），一九六〇年代初期因為轉學到西柏林的自由大學主修日耳曼學、副修歷史學與哲學而從此定居於柏林。施耐德是德國戰後著名的左派作家，他於一九七三年發表的小說《連茨》（Lenz）是當時左派圈子人手一本的熱門作品。除了小說之外，這位多產的作家還撰寫劇本、散文與評論，其中以一些談論分裂和統一後的柏林的著作最受矚目。他還通曉英文與義大利文等多種外文，曾為德國《明鏡週刊》、美國《紐約時報》、法國《世界報》（Le Monde）及義大利《共和報》（La Repubblica）撰寫文章，並曾受邀到美國史丹佛大學、普林斯頓大學和哈佛大學等校擔任訪問學者。 譯者簡介： 莊仲黎 德國漢堡大學民族學碩士、博士候選人。曾任《講義》雜誌德文編譯，譯有《怎麼有人研究這個...(展开全部)

A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. "History at its best." -Zbigniew Brzezinski "Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with many lessons for today." -Henry Kissinger "Captures the drama [with] the 'You are there' storytelling skills of a journalist and the analytical skil...(展开全部)