Stasi Wolf

Author : David Young
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1499861893
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stasi Wolf written by David Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new gripping cold war thriller from the bestselling author of Stasi Child How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions? The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child. East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed her. Halle-Neustadt is a new town - the pride of the communist state - and she and her team are forbidden by the Stasi from publicising the disappearances, lest they tarnish the town's flawless image. Meanwhile, in the eerily nameless streets and tower blocks, a child snatcher lurks, and the clock is ticking to rescue the twins alive . . . 'This fast-paced thriller hooks the readers from the start' The Sun 'A masterful evocation of the claustrophobic atmosphere of communist era East Germany . . . an intricate, absorbing page-turner' Daily Express 'The perfect blend of action, suspense and excitement. This is top notch crime! I will be shouting about this book to everyone, everywhere. Northern Crime 'One of the most fascinating and original detectives in contemporary crime fiction . . . a hugely accomplished novel' (For Winter Nights) 'For me David Young has cemented his place on the bookshelf alongside my Cold War thrillers by John le Carré and Len Deighton' The Quiet Knitter

Author : David Young
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785760696
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stasi Wolf written by David Young and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you solve a murder when you can't ask any questions? The gripping new thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of Stasi Child. East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed her. Halle-Neustadt is a new town - the pride of the communist state - and she and her team are forbidden by the Stasi from publicising the disappearances, lest they tarnish the town's flawless image. Meanwhile, in the eerily nameless streets and tower blocks, a child snatcher lurks, and the clock is ticking to rescue the twins alive . . . 'This fast-paced thriller hooks the readers from the start' The Sun 'A masterful evocation of the claustrophobic atmosphere of communist era East Germany . . . an intricate, absorbing page-turner' Daily Express 'The perfect blend of action, suspense and excitement. This is top notch crime! I will be shouting about this book to everyone, everywhere. Northern Crime 'One of the most fascinating and original detectives in contemporary crime fiction . . . a hugely accomplished novel' (For Winter Nights) 'For me David Young has cemented his place on the bookshelf alongside my Cold War thrillers by John le Carré and Len Deighton' The Quiet Knitter

Author : David Young
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250121760
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stasi Child written by David Young and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Young's chillingly intricate Stasi Child was A London Times “Crime Book of the Month” and a Telegraph Pick of the Week. 1975: When Oberleutnant Karin Muller is called to investigate a teenage girl's body at the foot of the Berlin Wall, she imagines she's seen it all before. But she soon realizes that this is a death like no other before it - the girl was evidently trying to escape from West Berlin. As a member of the People's Police, Muller's power in East Germany only stretches so far. The Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, assures her the case is closed, all they need to know is the girl's name. Yet they strongly discourage her from asking questions. The evidence doesn't add up, and it soon becomes clear the crime scene has been staged. But this regime does not tolerate curious minds, and it takes Müller too long to realize that the trail she's been following may lead her dangerously close to home ...

Author : Markus Wolf
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781891620126
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man Without A Face written by Markus Wolf and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 1999-06-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Markus Wolf was known to Western intelligence officers only as "the man without a face." Now the legendary spymaster has emerged from the shadows to reveal his remarkable life of secrets, lies, and betrayals as head of the world's most formidable and effective foreign service ever. Wolf was undoubtedly the greatest spymaster of our century. A shadowy Cold War legend who kept his own past locked up as tightly as the state secrets with which he was entrusted, Wolf finally broke his silence in 1997. Man Without a Face is the result. It details all of Wolf's major successes and failures and illuminates the reality of espionage operations as few nonfiction works before it. Wolf tells the real story of Gunter Guillaume, the East German spy who brought down Willy Brandt. He reveals the truth behind East Germany's involvment with terrorism. He takes us inside the bowels of the Stasi headquarters and inside the minds of Eastern Bloc leaders. With its high-speed chases, hidden cameras, phony brothels, secret codes, false identities, and triple agents, Man Without a Face reads like a classic spy thriller—except this time the action is real.

Author : Elizabeth Boa
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051837254
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Wende written by Elizabeth Boa and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De congrespapers voor dit congres onderzoeken de effecten van de Duitse eenwording op het leven van vrouwen, en hoe vrouwen hebben gereageerd op de politieke, economische, sociale en culturele veranderingen en eveneens hoe de politieke veranderingen geportretteerd zijn in de media en in literaire teksten. In deze bundel zijn de volgende bijdragen opgenomen: A la recherche de la révolution perdue : ein innerdeutscher Monolog / door Barbara Köhler; Frauen im vereinten Deutschland : Wertewandel oder Verzicht? / door Sabine Bergmann-Pohl; Women in the new federal states after the Wende : the impact of unification on women's employment opportunities / door Barbara Einhorn; Women, work and the Wende : regional and sectoral perspectives, political and individual responses / door Rachel Alsop; The abortion debate in unified Germany / door Elizabeth Clements; Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands : socialist mass organisation and western charity? / door Julia Teschner; Keeping a foot in the door : East German women's academic, political, cultural and social projects / door Hanna Behrend; Der gewendete Kulturbetrieb? / door Kerstin Mey; Identitäten von Ost-Frauen im Transformationsprozess : Probleme ostdeutscher Frauenforschung / door Irene Dölling; Women in East Germany : emancipation of exploitation? / door Dinah Dodds; Changing subjectivities? women and identity / door Chris Weedon; Wende-Bilder : television images of women in Germany in transition / door Andrea Rinke; Für Dich and the Wende : women's weekly between plan and market / door Martha Wörsching; Emma and the Wende / door Margaret Stone; Pressing for change : the case of Helga Königsdorf / door Jean E. Conacher; To the Victor the spoils : Sleeping Beauty's sexual awakening / door Ingrid Sharp; Elektra, Iphigenie and Antigone : Volker Braun's women and the Wende / door J.H.Reid; 'Eine Königin köpfen ist effektiver als einen König köpfen' : the gender politics of the Christa Wolf controversy / door Anna K. Kuhn; Adieu Kassandra? Schriftstellerinnen aus der DDR vor, in und nach der Wende / door Eva Kaufmann; 'Über Verschwiegenes sprechen' : female homosexuality and the public sphere in the GDR before and after the Wende / door Georgina Paul; Demontage der Modellfrau-DDR: Dekonstruktionen der allseitig entwickelten sozialistischen Persönlichkeit / door Astrid Herhoffer; From surrealism to realism : Monika Maron's 'Die Überläuferin' and 'Stille Zeile sechs' / door Ricarda Schmidt; Der Mut zu stolzen Tönen / door Helga Königsdorf.

Author : David Young
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785767151
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stasi 77 written by David Young and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret State. A dark conspiracy. A terrible crime. Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. But who is he? Why was he targeted? Could his murderer simply be someone with a grudge against the factory's nationalisation, as Müller's Stasi colleagues insist? Why too is her deputy Werner Tilsner behaving so strangely? As more victims surface, it becomes clear that there is a cold-blooded killer out there taking their revenge. Soon Müller begins to realise that in order to solve these terrible crimes, she will need to delve into the region's dark past. But are the Stasi really working with her on this case? Or against her? For those who really run this Republic have secrets they would rather remain uncovered. And they will stop at nothing to keep them that way . . . A gripping and evocative crime thriller, moving between the devastating closing weeks of the Second World War and the Stasi-controlled 1970s, STASI 77 is David Young's most compelling and powerful novel yet.

Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429942789
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Angels written by Christa Wolf and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar—and disturbing—story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel—and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters.

Author : Barbara Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351302663
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stasi Files Unveiled written by Barbara Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992 the massive files of East Germany's infamous Ministry for State Security, the Stasi, were made publicly available and thousands of former East Germans began to confront their contents. Finally it was possible for ordinary citizens to ascertain who had worked for the Stasi, either on a full-time basis or as an "unofficial employee," the Stasi's term for an informer. The revelations from these documents sparked feuds old and new among a population already struggling through enormous social and political upheaval. Drawing upon the Stasi files and upon interviews with one-time informers, this book examines the impact of the Stasi legacy in united Germany. Barbara Miller examines such aspects of the informer's experience as: the recruitment procedure; daily life and work; motivation and justification. She goes on to consider the dealings of politicians and the courts with the Stasi and its employees. Her analysis then turns to the way in which this aspect of recent German history has been remembered, and the phenomenal impact of the opening of the files on such perceptions of the past. The Stasi Files Unveiled: Guilt and Compliance in a Unified Germany offers important new perspectives on the nature of individual and collective memory and is a fascinating investigation of modern German society. Barbara Miller graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1991 with a degree in German and psychology. She taught and researched in Germany and Austria before completing her doctoral thesis in Glasgow in 1997. She is now based in Sydney, Australia.

Author : John O. Koehler
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786724412
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stasi written by John O. Koehler and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or "Stasi." The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppressed political opposition, and caused the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of citizens, proved to be one of the most powerful secret police and espionage services in the world. Koehler methodically reviews the Stasi's activities within East Germany and overseas, including its programs for internal repression, international espionage, terrorism and terrorist training, art theft, and special operations in Latin America and Africa. Koehler was both Berlin bureau chief of the Associated Press during the height of the Cold War and a U.S. Army Intelligence officer. His insider's account is based on primary sources, such as U.S. intelligence files, Stasi documents made available only to the author, and extensive interviews with victims of political oppression, former Stasi officers, and West German government officials. Drawing from these sources, Koehler recounts tales that rival the most outlandish Hollywood spy thriller and, at the same time, offers the definitive contribution to our understanding of this still largely unwritten aspect of the history of the Cold War and modern Germany.

Author : David Young
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785765485
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stasi Winter written by David Young and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN EAST GERMANY, SOLVING A MURDER CAN GET YOU KILLED . . . A gripping and intelligent thriller set in East Germany, during the worst winter in one-hundred years. Perfect for fans of Tom Rob Smith, Phillip Kerr and Joseph Kanon. ____________________________________ In 1978 East Germany, nothing is as it seems. The state's power is absolute, history is re-written, and the 'truth' is whatever the Stasi say it is. So when a woman's murder is officially labelled 'accidental death', Major Karin Müller of the People's Police is faced with a dilemma. To solve the crime, she must disregard the official version of events. But defying the Stasi means putting her own life - and the lives of her young family - in danger. As the worst winter in living memory holds Germany in its freeze, Müller must untangle a web of state secrets and make a choice: between truth and lies, justice and injustice, and, ultimately, life and death. Stunningly authentic and brimming with moral ambiguity, Stasi Winter is the thrilling new novel from the award-winning author of Stasi Child. ____________________________________ Praise for David Young: 'Excellent' The Times 'Thrilling' William Ryan 'Masterful' Daily Express 'Fast-paced' The Sun 'Superb. Reminded me of Robert Harris at his best' Mason Cross 'Up there with Martin Cruz Smith and the other greats of the field' Abir Mukherjee