Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: "A Hell of a Lot Better Than a War" (Hardcover)

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• Format: Hardcover   Learn more about the Hardcover format using Tower WIKI.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• ISBN: 0742560902
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113631024
• Release Date: August 15, 2009
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KENNEDY AND THE BERLIN WALL is a vivid look at Kennedy and Khrushchev's delicate diplomatic high-wire act that led to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Author W.R. Sysmer was a young worker at the U.S. mission in Berlin at the time of the events, so he brings a considerable personal perspective to his meticulous research. The stakes were high, the acts were outrageous, the consequences were terrible, but World War III was avoided, and Sysmer's book skillfully shows the tension and importance of this overlooked historic event.

Kennedy and the Berlin Wall will tell the full story of the Berlin Crisis that riveted international attention and brought the world to the brink of nuclear warfare as Soviet and American tanks opposed each other on the streets of Berlin. Drawing on the author's own experience as an American diplomat in Germany during the period, as well as on recently opened Soviet, East German, and American archives, Smyser tells the story of how the fate of a city affected national politics as well as geopolitics. This compelling mix of documentary resources and direct experience of diplomatic negotiations makes the book unique. The author has a keen sense of the critical moment and draws incisive portraits of the politicians and diplomats involved in this drama-most importantly, the two main actors, Kennedy and Khrushchev, but also DeGaulle for the French, Macmillan for the British, and Konrad Adenauer for the West Germans, as well as such critical career diplomats as Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko.

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