Zookeepers' War
Author: J.W. Mohnhaupt, Shelley Frisch
ISBN: 978-1501188497
Price: Rs. 599.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
The unbelievable true story of the Cold Wars strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. ¦The liveliness of Mohnhaupts storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read. Star Tribune (Minneapolis)Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, East Berlin and its zoo were spacious and lush, socialist utopias where everything was perfectly planned... and then rarely completed. Berlins two zoos in East and West quickly became symbols of the divided citys two halves. And so no one was terribly surprised when the head zookeepers on either side started an animal arms race: rather than stockpiling nuclear warheads, they competed to have the most pandas and hippos. Soon, state funds were being diverted toward giving these new animals lavish welcomes worthy of visiting dignitaries. West German presidential candidates were talking about zoo policy on the campaign trail. And eventually politicians on both side of the Wall became convinced that if their zoo were proved to be inferior, then that would mean their countrys whole ideology was too. A quirky piece of Cold War history unlike anything youve heard before, The Zookeepers War is an epic tale of desperate rivalries, human follies, and an animal-mad city in which zookeeping became a way of continuing politics by other means.
Browse this title within our Summer Read collection. Edition details: Images in this review, English, 272 pages. Reference ISBN: 978-1501188497.
About the Author
Jan Mohnhaupt has written for many of Germany’s leading newspapers and magazines. The Zookeepers’ War is his first book to be translated into English. He lives in Munich, where he’s happy to be close to one of his favorite zoos. Shelley Frisch’s award-winning translations from German include biographies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich, Leni Riefenstahl, and Franz Kafka. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- Students & Academic Researchers
- Language & Format
- English • Images in this review
- ISBN Reference
- 978-1501188497
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
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What is this book about?
The unbelievable true story of the Cold Wars strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. ¦The liveliness of Mohnhaupts storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read. Star Tribune (Minneapolis)Living in West...
Who should read this book?
Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book for the way it turns Cold War history on its head. Instead of missiles and spies, you get pandas, hippos, and zookeepers locked in a bizarre battle of prestige across the Berlin Wall. The storytelling is lively, witty, and deeply human, showing how politics seeped into everyday life in the most unexpected ways. It’s smart history that reads like a story, leaving you both amused and quietly moved.
- Published by Simon & Schuster.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 272.
Catalog Description
The unbelievable true story of the Cold Wars strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall. ¦The liveliness of Mohnhaupts storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read. Star Tribune (Minneapolis)Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, East Berlin and its zoo were spacious and lush, socialist utopias where everything was perfectly planned... and then rarely completed. Berlins two zoos in East and West quickly became symbols of the divided citys two halves. And so no one...
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