Berlin in Early Cold-War Army Booklets
By: Compiled by
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Trade paper
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781434839756
Description: This is a reprint of a series of six army booklets on Berlin, covering the period from 1946 to 1958, two years after the Russians shut down the CIA cross-sector tunnel that served as the background for the novel "Voices Under Berlin". The booklets represent part of the research that went into the novel. The booklets are written from a single institutional viewpoint, that of the United States Military Command in Berlin. When read in parallel, the booklets create a sense of living history, because, while they cover the same topics of interest about Berlin, their coverage of these topics changes as the series progresses, and you can see the political relationships of the time change before your eyes. The reprint is indexed and the changes in the text from one edition to the next of the individual booklets are highlighted for ease of comparison. To help better define the historical context of the booklets the reprint is provided with a Berlin Chronology.
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: Compiler's Preface page v; title: Time Line of "Early Cold War" Berlin: 1945 -- 1956  page ix; title: U.S. Sector of Berlin: Information for New Arrivals  page 1; title: (Published by Headquarters, Berlin District, 25 April 1946, 56  pages, map, combined with the edition of 15 July 1946); title: "Berlin,"   page 53; title: (An extract (pages 106-109) of chapter 10 "Military Communities,"  from  "An Introduction to Germany for Occupation Families", published by Headquarters United States Forces European Command under  supervision of the G-1 Division, prepared by the Information and  Education Service, March, 1947); title: Special Services Tour of Berlin (1950)  page 57; title: (Presented by Special Services Branch, compiled and edited by  Viviane W. Adams, Berlin Military Post, 1950, 30 pages, map); title: Special Services Tour of Potsdam (1950) page 87; title: (Presented by Special Services Branch, compiled and edited by  Viviane W. Adams, Berlin Military Post, 1950, 18 pages, map); title: Special Services Berlin Tour (1953) page 109; title: (Presented by Special Services Section, Berlin Military Command,  [1953], 68 pages, map [same as the 1950 edition]); title: Berlin (1954)  page 157; title: (Prepared by the Public Information Office, Berlin Command, and  Berlin Element, U.S. High Commission for Germany, January 1954, 64  pages, map); title: Special Services Berlin Tour (1958) page 213; title: (Presented by Special Services Division, Berlin Command, [1958],  112 pages, bilingual: English-German, no map. Only the English text is  reprinted here. This reprint focuses on the differences between "Tour"  in the 1958 and the 1953 edition. The Shopping and Entertainment  Guide is not reproduced); title: Index page 239