Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany by Katja Hoyer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/660112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany Author: Katja Hoyer Narrator: Sam Peter Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the definitive history of East Germany, "a fascinating, sparkling book, filled with insights" (Peter Frankopan)   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.     In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country, revealing the rich political, social, and cultural landscape that existed amid oppression and hardship. Drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews and documents, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, beyond the Wall.