The Cold War in Germany

Overview, Origins, and Intelligence Wars

Otis C. Mitchell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

268 Seiten

2005
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-3211-9 (ISBN)

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The coverage of The Cold War in Germany: Overview, Origins, and Intelligence Wars is indicated in the subtitle. The "overview," like the "origins," concentrates primarily on the historical development of the Cold War. But the "overview" concentrates more heavily on World War II in terms of background while the "origins" goes back in time to the beginning of the modern era in Western Society. The book also deals with the various "wildcards" of the postwar era including Eurocommunism and the developments of terrorist activity in the 1970s.

Author Otis C. Mitchell, who served as an Army intelligence operative in North Germany, interweaves his counterintelligence experiences with newly declassified documentary evidence (particularly those of the C.I.A. operation in "battleground" Berlin called Base of Operations Berlin, or BOB). Combining these two sources, Mitchell paints a broad picture of the West and East German intelligence and counterintelligence services. He shows that the Cold War had, by the time of the building of the infamous Berlin Wall, already established basic patterns that lasted until its end and beyond. This system became anachronistic after the end of that long struggle, and was not adequate to face the challenge of Islamic fundamentalism as it developed in the 1990s and the early twenty first century.

Otis C. Mitchellis Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. Professor Mitchell (Ph.D., History) has authored or co-authored some sixteen works, among them Germany's Iron Chancellor: Otto von Bismarck in His Era and Crisis in Europe: Thirty Years' War (1618-1648).

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Historical Patterns Underlying the Cold War
Chapter 3 Shaping of the Cold War in E
Chapter 4 Wartime Cooperation to Peacetime Antagonism
Chapter 5 The 1950s: Reconstruction and International Block Building
Chapter 6 The Cold War as Customary Stimulus and Response
Chapter 7 The Brezhnev Era and Disillusionment
Chapter 8 Détente and After: Into the 1980s
Chapter 9 The End of the Cold War
Chapter 10 The Historical Shaping of the Cold War in Germany
Chapter 11 The Role of Postwar Vacuums (1945 and After)
Chapter 12 Finding an American Policy: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and NATO
Chapter 13 The Far East Yugoslavia, and a Cold War Deadlock
Chapter 14 The Extension and Containment to Asia-Indochina
Chapter 15 Stalin's Death and Afterward
Chapter 16 The Cuban Missile Crisis and the End of a Historical Era
Chapter 17 Berlin and Germany: Intelligence Battleground After 1945
Chapter 18 The Korean War's Impact on German Intelligence
Chapter 19 Post-Blockade Intelligence Operations in Germany
Chapter 20 The East German State Security and Intelligence Establishment
Chapter 21 1950s Intelligence: The Development of Opposing
Chapter 22 End Game: Threats and Counterpressures Until Fall of 1963
Chapter 23 Epilogue
Chapter 24 Bibliography
Chapter 25 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.6.2005
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 215 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7618-3211-4 / 0761832114
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-3211-9 / 9780761832119
Zustand	Neuware