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East Germany Books
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,384 ratings — published 2003
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,807 ratings — published 2023
Kairos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.34 — 28,586 ratings — published 2021
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.30 — 469 ratings — published 2015
The People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.83 — 139 ratings — published 2006
Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.45 — 4,866 ratings — published 1999
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.09 — 131,201 ratings — published 1963
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.67 — 106 ratings — published 2006
Siblings (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,787 ratings — published 1963
Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.71 — 403 ratings — published 1998
Red Love: The Story of an East German Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,982 ratings — published 2009
A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.18 — 71 ratings — published
The East German Handbook: Arts and Artifacts from the GDR / Das DDR Handbuch: Kunst und Alltagsgegenstände aus der DDR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.41 — 82 ratings — published 2017
Stasi Child (Karin Müller, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,337 ratings — published 2015
Born in the GDR: Life in the Shadow of the Wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.01 — 426 ratings — published 2014
After the Wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,244 ratings — published 2002
In Times of Fading Light (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,843 ratings — published 2011
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,245 ratings — published 2017
Stasi Wolf (Karin Müller, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,588 ratings — published 2017
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,210 ratings — published 2006
A Night Divided (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,838 ratings — published 2015
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,422 ratings — published 2012
Woman in the Pillory (Penguin Modern Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.12 — 184 ratings — published 1969
Making of the GDR, 1945–53 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 2000
Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.47 — 19 ratings — published 2001
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,737 ratings — published 2021
Uprising in East Germany, 1953: The Cold War, the German Question, and the First Major Upheaval behind the Iron Curtain (CEU National Security Archive Cold War Reader)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2001
Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth (Compelling Cold War History)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,130 ratings — published 2019
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.52 — 693 ratings — published 2022
Der Osten: eine westdeutsche Erfindung (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,403 ratings — published 2023
Wir Angepassten: Überleben in der DDR (German Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.98 — 50 ratings — published 2014
States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.68 — 22 ratings — published
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.51 — 9,423 ratings — published 2021
The Divided Nation: A History of Germany 1918-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.77 — 241 ratings — published 1992
Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.32 — 41 ratings — published 2020
Crossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.16 — 32 ratings — published 2003
Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.93 — 455 ratings — published 2018
DDR Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2006
Stasi 77 (Karin Müller #4)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.14 — 896 ratings — published 2019
Der geteilte Himmel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.41 — 2,157 ratings — published 1963
A Darker State (Karin Müller #3)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,010 ratings — published 2018
Go, Went, Gone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,822 ratings — published 2015
The Stasi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1996
Schlaflose Tage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.65 — 91 ratings — published 1978
Faust's Gold: Inside The East German Doping Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.62 — 144 ratings — published 2001
Man Without a Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.97 — 478 ratings — published 1997
Cassandra (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,200 ratings — published 1983
The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi (Oxford Oral History Series)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.80 — 130 ratings — published 2010
Visitation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.41 — 8,494 ratings — published 2008
Private Berlin (Private, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as east-germany)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,814 ratings — published 2013
“45,000 sections of reinforced concrete—three tons each.
Nearly 300 watchtowers.
Over 250 dog runs.
Twenty bunkers.
Sixty five miles of anti-vehicle trenches—signal wire, barbed wire, beds of nails.
Over 11,000 armed guards.
A death strip of sand, well-raked to reveal footprints.
200 ordinary people shot dead following attempts to escape the communist regime.
96 miles of concrete wall.
Not your typical holiday destination.
JF Kennedy said the Berlin Wall was a better option than a war. In TDTL, the Anglo-German Bishop family from the pebbledashed English suburb of Oaking argue about this—among other—notions while driving to Cold War Berlin, through all the border checks, with a plan to visit both sides of it.”
― Tying Down the Lion
Nearly 300 watchtowers.
Over 250 dog runs.
Twenty bunkers.
Sixty five miles of anti-vehicle trenches—signal wire, barbed wire, beds of nails.
Over 11,000 armed guards.
A death strip of sand, well-raked to reveal footprints.
200 ordinary people shot dead following attempts to escape the communist regime.
96 miles of concrete wall.
Not your typical holiday destination.
JF Kennedy said the Berlin Wall was a better option than a war. In TDTL, the Anglo-German Bishop family from the pebbledashed English suburb of Oaking argue about this—among other—notions while driving to Cold War Berlin, through all the border checks, with a plan to visit both sides of it.”
― Tying Down the Lion
“...this is a two-fold country, and, what's more, everyone in it is two-fold, one part possibility and the other its refutal”
― The Quest for Christa T.
― The Quest for Christa T.
