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For a young man newly arrived in Berlin, a chance encounter with a mysterious Lebanese singer offers the excitement he craves. But after just one intoxicating date she disappears. Undeterred, he tries to track her down – a search that draws him into the city’s alternative scene, an exotic world of communes, artist collectives, politicised flash mobs, transvestite cabaret acts and shisha dens.Instead of him finding her, she finds him and a faltering relationship begins – but with it comes a startling revelation. And when those close to her start to die or disappear, he realises that her love might come at a terrible cost. This narrative dovetails with two unearthed voices from the city’s past. One is presented in a series of letters written twenty years ago by an East German border guard to his lover on the other side of the Wall. The second is in the form of diary entries written by a teenage girl, soon after the fall of Nazi Berlin, living in daily fear of discovery by Soviet troops wreaking revenge on the city.The Killing Strip paints a vivid portrait of a city and the disparate people who inhabit it, while exploring the notions of love, sacrifice, freedom and the walls that exist inside us all.
Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights, this book challenges popular narratives on the fall of the Berlin Wall and illustrates how notions of human rights evolved in the Cold War as they were re-imagined in East Germany by both dissidents and state officials. Ultimately, the fight for human rights in East Germany was part of a global battle in the post-war era over competing conceptions of what human rights meant. Nonetheless, the collapse of dictatorship in East Germany did not end this conflict, as citizens had to choose for themselves what kind of human rights would follow in its wake.
The bestselling author of "Naked Economics" defies the odds with a book aboutstatistics that readers will welcome and enjoy.
Fifteen years after a drug transfer through Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin goes awry, Justin Lawrence finds himself the target of extortion by a shadowy cartel. When Justin inexplicably disappears, his wife, Jackie, calls in friend and private investigator Alexis Mason to find him. Starting in New York, the search expands to Berlin, Toronto, and the Caribbean. Meanwhile, the drug cartel stalks Alexis and her associate, Travis, at their home base on the North Carolina Outer Banks to discover what they know about Justin's location.
The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter retraces and explains the interactions of Jews with other nations from the ancient kingdoms of Israel to modernity. Starting with the Hebrew Bible, Emmanuel Navon argues that one cannot grasp Israel’s interactions with the world without understanding how Judaism’s founding document has shaped the Jewish psyche. He sheds light on the people of Israel’s foreign policy through the ages: the ancient kingdoms of Israel, Jewish diasporas in Europe from the Middle Ages to the emancipation, the emerging nineteenth-century Zionist movement, and Zionist diplomacy following World War I and surrounding World War II. Navon elucidates Israel’s foreign policy from the birth of the state in 1948 to our days: the dilemmas and choices at the beginning of the Cold War; Israel’s attempts to establish periphery alliances; the Arab-Israeli conflict; Israel’s relations with Europe, the United States, Russia, Asia, Africa, Latin America, the United Nations, and the Jewish diasporas; and how twenty-first-century energy geopolitics is transforming Israel’s foreign relations today. Navon’s analysis is rooted in two central ideas, represented by the Star of David (faith) and the scepter (political power). First, he contends that the interactions of Jews with the world have always been best served by combining faith with pragmatism. Second, Navon shows how the state of Israel owes its diplomatic achievements to national assertiveness and hard power—not only military strength but economic prowess and technological innovation. Demonstrating that diplomacy is a balancing act between ideals and realpolitik, The Star and the Scepter draws aspirational and pragmatic lessons from Israel’s exceptional diplomatic history.