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.
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...
评分在上世纪80年代初,中国人去民主德国,因为经费所限,许多人乘火车。由北京出发,经过莫斯科到柏林,一路上的“社会主义阵营”得走九天。从车窗看去,当时外蒙古比内蒙古好,在内蒙“风吹草低看牛羊”的景象很难看到了,草场遭到了严重地破坏,在外蒙却能够看到。进入前苏...
评分柏林墙代表什么?读完《柏林墙》后明白其实一千个人心目中有一千个柏林墙。不过在我们看来,柏林墙最大的意义在于:这堵对本国人民的禁锢与奴役的墙,鲜活又生动地揭示了为了自由,两德人民与政府究竟愿意付出怎样的代价。 是的,迫使东德政府修建这堵墙的东德人民...
评分1961年8月15号,19岁的下士舒曼在一团铁丝网边站岗,他的西边,一大堆示威者在咒骂他;他的东边,也有一大堆示威者在咒骂他。后来他回忆说:“我只是在尽责而已,但所有人都在咒骂我……作为一个年轻人,我难过极了。”可能是他眼神里的惊恐被察觉了。西边的人转而对他大...
评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...
the theft of hope
评分What belongs together will grow together.
评分the theft of hope
评分so far so good
评分像小说一样紧张生动,并且充满了身为英国佬的必要的自嘲。频频为这人间苦难撒热泪,幸亏结局是个幸福结局——总之还是哭了。
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