This carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, international figures, and others to move beyond the narratives both the German and American varieties that have dominated the historical memory of German reunification.

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“The End of the Cold War is both a serious academic study and a lively and engaging read; it offers the fascinating perspectives of those who drove, and were sometimes driven by, this chaotic series of events. In general, von Plato’s considerable skills as influential and productive oral historian are evident here, along with his passion to understand better this landmark event in the recent history of his German home.” (Stephen Sloan, The Oral History Review, 2017)

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Alexander von Plato was founder and director of the Institute for History and Biography of the University of Hagen, guest professor in Vienna and Winnipeg, recipient of the Diefenbaker Award 2012)

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Book Title: The End of the Cold War?
Book Subtitle: Bush, Kohl, Gorbachev, and the Reunification of Germany
Authors: Alexander Plato
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137488725
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-48870-1Published: 16 April 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-48872-5Published: 26 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 439
Topics: European History, History of Germany and Central Europe, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, European Politics, Modern History, Oral History

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: The Historian as a Detective

Documents and Remembrances

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