East Germany


Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
Kairos
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990
Siblings
The East German Handbook: Arts and Artifacts from the GDR / Das DDR Handbuch: Kunst und Alltagsgegenstände aus der DDR
Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police
A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
Stasi Child (Karin Müller, #1)
Born in the GDR: Life in the Shadow of the Wall
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
380 books — 123 voters
The Shadow of His Past by Nickie CochranThe Tango Player by Christoph HeinThe Valley of Unknowing by Philip SingtonOder Florida by Christian BangelThe Wall Between by Jesper Bugge Kold
Novels set in the GDR
15 books — 6 voters

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le CarréSmiley's People by John le CarréThe Looking Glass War by John le CarréGorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
The Best Cold War Novels
45 books — 50 voters
Cinderella Goes to Market by Barbara EinhornPost-Soviet Women Encountering Transition by Kathleen KuehnastDaughters of Revolution by Barbara Evans ClementsWomen without Men by Jennifer UtrataEconomies of Violence by Jennifer Suchland
Women in (post)socialist Europe
18 books — 3 voters


Anna Funder
Ci sono persone che si sentono a loro agio a parlare della propria vita, come se riuscissero a ricavare un senso dalla successione di eventi casuali che le hanno rese quel che sono. Questo comporta una sorta di fede preveggente nella vita; la convinzione che causa ed effetto siano legati, e che essi stessi siano qualcosa di più della semplice somma del loro passato.
Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

Katja Hoyer
The last diplomatic crisis had been all too recent. A month earlier, a West German man, who had travelled through the GDR, had died of a heart attack when questioned by border guards in a barrack in Drewitz, Saxony-Anhalt. As such, this was nothing out of the ordinary. The psychological pressure that East German border guards deliberately built up during questioning proved too much for an estimated 350 people in total who died of heart failure at inner-German checkpoints.
Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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