Drawing the Line: The American Decision to Divide Germany, 1944-1949

ISBN-13: 9780521392129 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 540 str.

Carolyn Eisenberg

Opis

In this fresh and challenging study of the origins of the Cold War, Professor Eisenberg traces the American role in dividing postwar Germany. Drawing upon original documentary sources, she explores how U.S. policy makers chose partition and mobilized reluctant West Europeans behind that approach. The book casts new light on the Berlin blockade, demonstrating that the United States rejected United Nations mediation and relied on its nuclear monopoly as the means of protecting its German agenda.

Recenzje

'The work by Carolyn Eisenberg is an important contribution to the 'revisionist history' that mant claim has been discredited by the demise of the USSR … The analysis is very well documented, partly by means of archival material … serves as a valuable corrective to the triumphalist 'post-revisionist' historiography.' NOD and Conversion

Spis treści

1. Plans; 2. Making peace; 3. The limits of reform: the US zone; 4. A fragile friendship; 5. The Russian challenge; 6. Bizonal beginnings; 7. The doctors deliberate; 8. Marshall's medicine; 9. A separate state; 10. Cold War Germany; 11. Winning; Conclusion: the American decision to divide Germany.