Fighting the Cold War in Post-Blockade, Pre-Wall Berlin: Behind Enemy Lines

ISBN-13: 9780367784409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Mark Fenemore

Opis

As fought in 1950s Berlin, the cold war was a many-headed monster. Assessing the licit and the illicit, the book stresses the messy and entwined nature of this war of a thousand cuts / miniscule salami slices.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE: A MESSY AND ENTANGLED BORDER COMPLEX

1) Brinkmanship and Intransigence at the Frontier

2) Enclaves and Exclaves

3) S-Bahn Incidents

PART TWO: SHADOW-BOXING FEINTS AND REAL INCURSIONS

4) The Paramilitary Response to Threatened Invasions

5) Policing Demonstrations and Protests near the Border

PART THREE: CONTAGIOUS CAPITALISM AND IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION

6) Illicit Smuggling

7) Wanderers Between Two Worlds

PART FOUR: COVERT WARFARE IN COLD-WAR BERLIN

8) The Murky World of Espionage

9) The Art of Kidnapping

10) Impact of the Berlin Wall

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Mark Fenemore is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having completed a PhD on East German youth subcultures at University College London, supervised by Professor Mary Fulbrook, he has worked on a series of projects relating to gender, sexuality, mass culture, espionage and policing, with a particular focus on divided, cold-war Berlin.