Description:
- It is one of the few studies that addresses the entanglement of the two Germanys during the Cold War at various levels including culture, society and politics.
- It comprises chapters from young researchers and established scholars from a plethora of subject areas who present original research in an accessible and engaging style.
- The introduction by the editors and the first chapter by Thomas Lindenberger offer a new conceptual take on Germany as a 'border zone' of the cold war.
- The select bibliography and index, in addition to the chapters of the book, offer helpful tools for a variety of readers ranging from undergraduate students to the more advanced scholar.
Brief description:
Christoph Laucht is Lecturer in 20th Century British History at the University of Leeds. His research interests include the cultural history of the nuclear age, the transnational history of the Cold War and film and history. He is author of Elemental Germans: Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939-59 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and has widely published on British and American nuclear history, Cold War history and film and history.
Review Quotes:
"[A] timely and important contribution to the current scholarship on the Cold War and the critical reassessment of Cold War history within an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational framework...The editors are to be commended for promoting a comparative perspective in the individual essays themselves and through the thoughtful selection of topics from East and West German perspectives." - Sabine Hake, University of Texas, Austin