{"product_id":"cold-war-city-david-e-barclay-9780691159256","title":"Cold War City: A History of West Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of West Berlin, the island city deep inside the Soviet bloc that withstood the decades-long confrontation between the USSR and the West\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLocated more than one hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain, West Berlin served as a stage on which the confrontation between nuclear-armed superpowers played out across nearly five decades. It was portrayed in the West as an island of freedom in a totalitarian sea but increasingly came to be seen by some as a bleak enclave without a future, yet the city also embodied a remarkable openness to alternative lifestyles and radical forms of cultural experimentation. \u003ci\u003eCold War City\u003c\/i\u003e is a definitive history of West Berlin that takes readers from the end of the Second World War to the withdrawal of Allied troops in 1994. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on substantial new research in archives on both sides of the Atlantic, David Barclay vividly describes how some of the most dramatic events of the Cold War took place in and around West Berlin, including the perilous crises that culminated in the building of the notorious Berlin Wall in 1961. A product of the postwar division of Germany, the city was a roiling ideological battleground comprised of American, British, and French sectors. Barclay shows how it became a distinct political and cultural entity despite its connections to the West while shedding light on the Cold War as a lived experience for West Berliners and the city's Allied occupiers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA nuanced portrait of a city that came to symbolize the divided postwar world, \u003ci\u003eCold War City\u003c\/i\u003e locates the history of West Berlin at the flashpoint between grand geopolitics and the daily concerns of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David E. Barclay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691159254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691159256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"David E. Barclay","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48520136851711,"sku":"9780691159256","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_102df160-2c0c-4837-a0ae-a1f4e69d083c.jpg?v=1778740968","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cold-war-city-david-e-barclay-9780691159256","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}