Kennedy and the Berlin Wall

"A Hell of a Lot Better than a War"

AvW. R. Smyser

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Del i serien Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Kennedy and the Berlin Wall tells the full story of the Berlin Crisis that riveted international attention and brought the world to the brink of nuclear warfare as Soviet and American tanks opposed each other on the streets of Berlin.Drawing on the author's own experience as an American diplomat in Germany during the period, as well as on recently opened Soviet, East German, and American archives, Smyser tells the story of how the fate of a city affected national politics as well as geopolitics. This compelling mix of documentary resources and direct experience of diplomatic negotiations makes the book unique. The author has a keen sense of the critical moment and draws incisive portraits of the politicians and diplomats involved in this drama—most importantly, the two main actors, Kennedy and Khrushchev, but also DeGaulle for the French, Macmillan for the British, and Konrad Adenauer for the West Germans, as well as such critical career diplomats as Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-08-16
Mått:161 x 240 x 23 mm
Vikt:619 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742560901

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W. R. Smyser served at the U.S. Mission in Berlin from 1960 to 1964 and was Assistant to General Lucius Clay during the Berlin Wall Crisis. He then served at the White House as Senior Staff and later at the United Nations as Assistant Secretary-General. He has been a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress. He has written numerous books and articles on Germany and Europe.

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His observations, plus those of other individuals in directly involved in the events, and his extensive research in secondary and primary sources led to this major contribution to understanding Cold War history. . . . Highly recommended.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: "Ich Bin Ein Berliner"Chapter 2: "A Bone in My Throat"Chapter 3: "Let the Word Go Forth"Chapter 4: "Alas, Mr. Ambassador, We Shall Die Together"Chapter 5: "I never Met a Man like That"Chapter 6: "This Is the Answer!"Chapter 7: "The East Germans Have Done Us a Favor"Chapter 8: "I Am Not Afraid of Escalation"Chapter 9: "The Game Continues"Chapter 10: "We'll Talk the Problem to Death"Chapter 11: "This May End in a Big War"Chapter 12: "Treaties Are like Maidens and Roses"Chapter 13: "We'll Never Have another Day like This"Chapter 14: "Our Hope is the Ami"Chapter 15: "We Are the People"