{"product_id":"cold-war-crossroads-w-d-owen-9781483491905","title":"Cold War Crossroads: East and West Berlin","description":"The Cold War was a complex, high-stakes period in world history during which the slightest mistake by JFK or Khrushchev-or their underlings-had the potential to devastate millions of lives. A scary time, it was also a time of heroes, cowards, soldiers, and thieves. Cold War Crossroads follows the paths of four such individuals with their own stories and agendas. Over a three year period, the observant narrator details the respective Cold War experiences, from 1961 to 1989, of an American soldier, an American government employee, an East German dissident engineer, and an East German worker. Tensions are common in all sectors, underneath and over the Berlin Wall. Author W. D. Owen is no stranger to this time of upheaval. He spent four years of his youth in West Germany during the Cold War. An accomplished German linguist and scholar of German defense policy, domestic politics, and culture, Owen lived in or visited both East and West German sites over a span of fifty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. D. Owen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1483491900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781483491905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lulu Publishing Services\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"W. D. Owen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458747609343,"sku":"9781483491905","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6c8d09de-5b2c-4a82-9887-3f05c4b8e9e8.jpg?v=1777406373","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cold-war-crossroads-w-d-owen-9781483491905","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}