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.
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...
评分万没有想到,在柏林墙纪念馆会读到我们中国的名字。柏林墙工程的代号,就是“中国长城第二”。 1961年8月,一个沉闷的夏天。对于大量东德人经柏林逃往西方已经忍无可忍的东德人和苏联人搞了一个漂亮的偷袭。8月12日凌晨1点,2万多军队突然开到东西柏林边境,立刻开始了修...
评分2009年11月,柏林的天空异常的安静,在这里读了4年书的我有幸赶上了柏林墙倒塌20周年的纪念活动,中国的元旦前我回到了北京,更加幸运的读到了《柏林墙》中文版,这是一部讲述柏林墙的兴建与倒掉的作品。在西方的文学影视作品中,柏林墙从来都是绝望、英勇的东德人逃离“魔掌...
评分柏林墙倒下了,东德人终于获得了他们梦寐以求的自由,然而,类似的悲剧却并没有在这里地球上结束,我们看到在远隔德国万里重洋的另外一个国家,依旧有一堵用来对付自己的百姓的墙巍峨耸立着,唯一的区别是,大多数人看不到甚至不知道这堵墙。
评分众所周知,《柏林墙》一书中所描绘的柏林墙在现实中是苏联在德国的一件作品,一件可能导致德国民族割裂的作品。 但是事物都是矛盾存在的,柏林墙的存在也不是有害无益。书中的描述在我们今天看来,柏林墙的建立应该利大于弊。抛开因为导致柏林人“偷渡”牺牲的因素,抛开...
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