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Beyond the Wall
- A History of East Germany
- De: Katja Hoyer
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. Acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good summary of ordinary life in the DDR
- De Z' en 03-09-24
- Beyond the Wall
- A History of East Germany
- De: Katja Hoyer
- Narrado por: Sam Peter Jackson
Outstanding
Revisado: 01-09-24
The narrative is very well told, and the history is fair-minded, well-researched, and clear-sighted. The author uses the experience of ordinary people as an entry point into the history of the GDR, which gives the history a real sense of time and place. The audiobook narrator does an excellent job as well.
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Blood and Iron
- The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
- De: Katja Hoyer
- Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring 39 individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France - all without destroying itself in the process?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Misleading title/subtitle
- De Ethan Brown en 12-15-21
- Blood and Iron
- The Rise and Fall of the German Empire; 1871-1918
- De: Katja Hoyer
- Narrado por: Natasha Soudek
Excellent survey of the first reich
Revisado: 06-20-23
A well-told and concise social and political history of the early modern German state. The narrative has the feel of a survey course -- it covers a lot of ground in a very short narrative. However, I was impressed by the level of analysis of both key figures and controversies. Although it isn't made explicit in the narrative, the story has contemporary resonance as well as "defensive nationalism" has started to re-emerge in a post-Soviet Europe, and as questions around the formation of national identity still shape the world we live in. While the story is concise, it isn't a simplistic or propagandistic telling of the history. As with any good history, the author's argument leaves plenty of room for readers to make their own judgments and do further investigation.
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