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Author : Andrew Long
Publisher : Europe@War
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1914377109
For many in East Germany, Walter Ulbricht's 'Workers' & Peasants' State' was not the Communist paradise he had promised. His population was leaving in their droves and he demanded radical action.
Author : Andrew Long
Publisher : Europe@War
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : 1914059034
At the end of the Second World War, the city of Berlin was located 100 miles (160 km) inside the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany. The Western Allies insisted on keeping part of the city for themselves, and so it was divided into four sectors, mimicking the rest of Germany. Stalin needed to persuade the British, French and Americans to leave so that there would be nothing in the way of him completing the strategic buffer of territory reaching from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic, which Churchill would later christen the 'Iron Curtain'. Cold War Berlin, an Island City is the story of how Stalin imposed his iron will over eastern Germany, and how he tried to squeeze his former allies out by cutting off their lines of supply and blockading the city. It examines the logistical miracle of the Berlin Airlift, which fed and heated a city of over two million people for almost eleven months. It is a story of alliances forged in the uncertainty of conflict, based on common interests and pragmatic convenience, alliances that would shape the twentieth century but would be betrayed for strategic or political reasons. It is also the tale of how competing ideologies came face to face in the city of Berlin and the new "Cold War" that would come to dominate the second half of the 20th century was created out of the embers of the Second World War. The book is richly illustrated with photos, numerous maps and color profiles and is the first in a mini-series by this author for Helion's Europe@War series on Cold War Berlin.
Author : Andrew Long
Publisher : Europe@war
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1804510297
West Berlin was the front line of the Cold War, an island of Western democracy, 100 miles inside East Germany and completely surrounded by the pride of the Soviet army.
Author : Andrew Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1804515817
Cold War Berlin: An Island City Volume 3, US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War, 1945-1994 examines how the American Berlin Brigade prepared for war: the units that made up the brigade, how it trained, how it was equipped, how it planned to defend the city, and also looks the Special Forces units that served alongside it. At the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allies split Germany into three zones of occupation, and Berlin into four sectors, one each for the British, Americans, French and Soviets. The city was surrounded by around 420,000 Soviet troops, the shock troops who would lead the invasion of Western Europe if that day came, and 180,000 East German troops spread across East Germany, and tens of thousands of paramilitary police. US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War looks at how the Berlin Brigade, the 5,000 strong American component of the 33,000 Western military presence in the city prepared to defend West Berlin from the Communist threat. US Forces in Berlin - Preparing for War is the second of two volumes covering US forces in Berlin during the Cold War, from their arrival in July 1945, through to the departure of American Berlin Brigade in 1994. The text is richly illustrated with photographs, illustrations, diagrams, tables, maps, plans, and color profiles, and is printed in full color throughout.
Author : Andrew Long
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526790286
The dramatic story of how the superpowers collected secrets and used intelligence to build an advantage during the Cold War, the longest and most dangerous confrontation of the twentieth century. The Cold War, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was fought mostly in the shadows, with the superpowers maneuvering for strategic advantage in an anticipated global armed confrontation that thankfully never happened. How did the intelligence organizations of the major world powers go about their work? What advantages were they looking for? Did they succeed? By examining some of the famous, infamous, or lesser-known intelligence operations from both sides of the Iron Curtain, this book explains how the superpowers went about gathering intelligence on each other, examines the type of information they were looking for, what they did with it, and how it enabled them to stay one step ahead of the opposition. Possession of these secrets threatened a Third World War, but also helped keep the peace for more than four decades. With access to previously unreleased material, the author explores how the intelligence organizations, both civilian and military, took advantage of rapid developments in technology, and how they adapted to the changing threat. The book describes the epic scale of some of these operations, the surprising connections between them, and how they contributed to a complex multi-layered intelligence jigsaw which drove decision making at the highest level. On top of all the tradecraft, gadgets and ‘cloak and dagger’, the book also looks at the human side of espionage: their ideologies and motivations, the winners and losers, and the immense courage and frequent betrayal of those whose lives were touched by the Secrets of the Cold War.
Author : Thomas Flemming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : UVA:X030565016
Author : Scott H. Krause,Stefanie Eisenhuth,Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755602773
A wide range of transatlantic contributors addresses Berlin as a global focal point of the Cold War, and also assess the geopolitical peculiarity of the city and how citizens dealt with it in everyday life. They explore not just the implications of division, but also the continuing entanglements and mutual perceptions which resulted from Berlin's unique status. An essential contribution to the study of Berlin in the 20th century, and the effects - global and local - of the Cold War on a city.
Author : Philip Broadbent,Sabine Hake
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845456573
A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin’s identities. German historians, art historians, architectural historians, and literary and cultural studies scholars explore the divisions and antagonisms that defined East and West Berlin; and by tracing the little studied similarities and extensive exchanges that occurred despite the presence of the Berlin Wall, they present an indispensible study on the politics and culture of the Cold War.
Author : Linda Rios Bromley
Publisher : Helion and Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781804515020
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War the Western Allies – led by the US – soon found themselves at odds with the Communist Bloc dominated by the Soviet Union. In the well-known phrase coined by Winston Churchill, an ‘Iron Curtain’ had descended across Europe. In the shadow of this Iron Curtain a conflict of ideologies erupted, known as the Cold War. Halfway across the globe, in the Caribbean, the island of Cuba had become a playground and haven for rich Americans, and organized crime flourished there under the umbrella provided by dictator Fulgencio Batista. Batista was ousted in a revolution led by Fidel Castro who although nominally non-aligned soon fell into the orbit of the Communist Bloc. After the failed US-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion attempt of 1961, Castro’s Cuba sought ever-closer ties and security guarantees with the USSR. Thus it was in 1962 that the US discovered evidence that the USSR was building military infrastructure in Cuba to support nuclear-armed ballistic missiles and Ilyushin bombers, protected by surface to air missiles, ground troops, anti-ship missiles and fast attack boats. For the US this was intolerable and preparations were made to destroy the missiles and invade the island. Cuba was placed under a naval quarantine and ships bound there were to be boarded and searched. The stage was set for what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and what many believe was perhaps the closest that the world has come to all out nuclear warfare between the two great Superpowers. Volume 2 of Pigs, Missiles and the CIA continues the story of Cuba following the Bay of Pigs Invasion and examines the development and timeline of the missile crisis as events jumped between Washington, DC, Moscow, Havanna, and the seas and skies around Cuba in a deadly game of brinksmanship that came close to unleashing nuclear war upon the world. This volume is illustrated throughout with period photographs and specially commissioned color artworks.
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469619651
One of the most significant industrial states in the country, with a powerful radical tradition, Pennsylvania was, by the early 1950s, the scene of some of the fiercest anti-Communist activism in the United States. Philip Jenkins examines the political and social impact of the Cold War across the state, tracing the Red Scare's reverberations in party politics, the labor movement, ethnic organizations, schools and universities, and religious organizations. Among Jenkins's most provocative findings is the revelation that, although their absolute numbers were not large, Communists were very well positioned in crucial Pennsylvania regions and constituencies, particularly in labor unions, the educational system, and major ethnic organizations. Instead of focusing on Pennsylvania's right-wing politicians (the sort represented nationally by Senator Joseph McCarthy), Jenkins emphasizes the anti-Communist activities of liberal politicians, labor leaders, and ethnic community figures who were terrified of Communist encroachments on their respective power bases. He also stresses the deep roots of the state's militant anti-Communism, which can be traced back at least into the 1930s.
Author : C. Eric Estberg
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726471292
First-person account of dozens of intriguing experiences in Cold War Berlin, written by an Army - and later civilian - linguist assigned to Army Field Station Berlin, located on West Berlin's rubble mountain known as Teufelsberg. Read what life was like for an "electronic spy" assigned over 100 miles behind the Iron Curtain. You'll find fascinating and unique insider information on exactly what went on in that massive window-less building which was a mysterious landmark to friend and foe alike. But life was not all work - Estberg recounts dozens of amusing, interesting, and sometimes wild experiences, all of which were part of the life of an intelligence professional in this high-stress environment. These include after-hours antics in his military barracks, which 40 years earlier had housed Hitler's personal SS bodyguard unit. The book includes loads of personal photographs from the author's years in Berlin, helping the reader picture what a singular place this walled city was during the height of the Cold War. Intelligence professionals assigned in Berlin weren't just training or preparing for a shooting war; they were actually living a war - the Cold War - every day they headed up to "The Hill," donned their headphones, and monitored the activities of tens of thousands of Soviet and East German troops stationed only miles away. While still in his 20's, the author was at the forefront of intelligence monitoring during the most dangerous period of the Cold War, helping analyze the huge flow of data which well could have meant the difference between a Cold War shrouded in secrets and a cataclysmic World War 3. This is the most detailed, accurate, and personal account of an intelligence professional's life in that remarkable, frightening place known as West Berlin, the "Island of Freedom."
Author : Daniel F. Harrington
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813136134
This study examines the 'Berlin question' from its origin in wartime plans for the occupation of Germany to the Paris Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in 1949. Tracing the blockade's origins, it explains why British and American planners during the Second World War neglected Western access to post-war Berlin and why Western officials did little to reduce Berlin's vulnerability as Cold War tensions increased.
Author : Mary Elise Sarotte
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465056903
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall -- infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe -- seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime -- nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It was an accident. In The Collapse, prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall. With a novelist's eye for character and detail, she brings to vivid life a story that sweeps across Budapest, Prague, Dresden, and Leipzig and up to the armed checkpoints in Berlin. We meet the revolutionaries Roland Jahn, Aram Radomski, and Siggi Schefke, risking it all to smuggle the truth across the Iron Curtain; the hapless Politburo member GüSchabowski, mistakenly suggesting that the Wall is open to a press conference full of foreign journalists, including NBC's Tom Brokaw; and Stasi officer Harald Jär, holding the fort at the crucial border crossing that night. Soon, Brokaw starts broadcasting live from Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, where the crowds are exulting in the euphoria of newfound freedom -- and the dictators are plotting to restore control. Drawing on new archival sources and dozens of interviews, The Collapse offers the definitive account of the night that brought down the Berlin Wall.
Author : Eric Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Berlin (Germany)
ISBN : OCLC:1017285932
Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250247551
From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before BERLIN’S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE: the city, along with the rest of Germany, was to be carved up among the victorious powers— the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. On paper, it seemed a pragmatic solution. In reality, once the four powers were no longer united by the common purpose of defeating Germany, they wasted little time reverting to their prewar hostility toward—and suspicion of—one another. The veneer of civility between the Western allies and the Soviets was to break down in spectacular fashion in Berlin. Rival systems, rival ideologies, and rival personalities ensured that the German capital became an explosive battleground. The warring leaders who ran Berlin’s four sectors were charismatic, mercurial men, and Giles Milton brings them all to rich and thrilling life here. We meet unforgettable individuals like America’s explosive Frank “Howlin’ Mad” Howley, a brusque sharp-tongued colonel with a relish for mischief and a loathing for all Russians. Appointed commandant of the city’s American sector, Howley fought an intensely personal battle against his wily nemesis, General Alexander Kotikov, commandant of the Soviet sector. Kotikov oozed charm as he proposed vodka toasts at his alcohol-fueled parties, but Howley correctly suspected his Soviet rival was Stalin’s agent, appointed to evict the Western allies from Berlin and ultimately from Germany as well. Throughout, Checkmate in Berlin recounts the first battle of the Cold War as we’ve never before seen it. An exhilarating tale of intense rivalry and raw power, it is above all a story of flawed individuals who were determined to win, and Milton does a masterful job of weaving between all the key players’ motivations and thinking at every turn. A story of unprecedented human drama, it’s one that had a profound, and often underestimated, shaping force on the modern world – one that’s still felt today.