United City, Divided Memories?: Cold War Legacies in Contemporary Berlin

by Dirk Verheyen (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $170.81

  Focuses on the questions of how Berlin deals with three specific Cold War era legacies the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. This book studies monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft a shared identity that tie together its western and eastern halves.

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $74.26

  United City, Divided Memories? focuses on the basic question of how Berlin today deals with three specific Cold War era legacies: the presence of the four Great Powers, the East German Stasi, and the Berlin Wall. Dirk Verheyen studies monuments, museums, and memorial sites as illustrations of Berlin's struggle to craft an effective shared identity that ties together its western and eastern halves.