![]() ![]() But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors.Īlex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. ![]() In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. ![]() Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. The acclaimed author of The Good German "deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his "thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller-a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.īerlin, 1948. New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Books 2015 * Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2015 ![]()
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