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9781412805506
Melvin Lasky's career spanned the entire history of wartime and postwar Germany, especially in divided and Wall-torn Berlin. This account of the final days of the German Democratic Republic is written with an intimacy about the German nation, a feeling for the language and culture of the people, and a sense of the ideological taproots of the Communist regime that ruled East Germany until the end. In it we see the reckoning of a regime, and also the vindication of a life-long devotee of European democracy. It is unlikely that any comparable memoir will be written.Lasky, Melvin J. is the author of 'Voices in a Revolution The Collapse of East German Communism', published 2006 under ISBN 9781412805506 and ISBN 1412805503.
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