The Resource The zookeeper's war : an incredible true story from the Cold War, J. W. Mohnhaupt ; translated by Shelley Frisch
The zookeeper's war : an incredible true story from the Cold War, J. W. Mohnhaupt ; translated by Shelley Frisch
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- Summary
- 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, the East Berlin zoo was spacious and lush, a socialist utopia where everything was perfectly planned, and then rarely successfully finished. Berlin's two zoos quickly became symbols of the divided city's 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, competing to have the most pandas and hippos. Soon, state funds were being quietly diverted to give 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 country's whole ideology was too. A quirky piece of Cold War history unlike anything you've 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
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 377 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of photos
- Note
- "Originally published in 2017 in Germany as Der Zoo der Anderen by Carl Hanser Verlag."
- Isbn
- 9781432879181
- Label
- The zookeeper's war : an incredible true story from the Cold War
- Title
- The zookeeper's war
- Title remainder
- an incredible true story from the Cold War
- Statement of responsibility
- J. W. Mohnhaupt ; translated by Shelley Frisch
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Summary
- 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, the East Berlin zoo was spacious and lush, a socialist utopia where everything was perfectly planned, and then rarely successfully finished. Berlin's two zoos quickly became symbols of the divided city's 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, competing to have the most pandas and hippos. Soon, state funds were being quietly diverted to give 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 country's whole ideology was too. A quirky piece of Cold War history unlike anything you've 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
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- 1983-
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- Mohnhaupt, Jan
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Frisch, Shelley Laura
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- Tierpark Berlin
- Zoologischer Garten (Berlin, Germany)
- Cold War
- Zoos
- Germany
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The zookeeper's war : an incredible true story from the Cold War, J. W. Mohnhaupt ; translated by Shelley Frisch
- Note
- "Originally published in 2017 in Germany as Der Zoo der Anderen by Carl Hanser Verlag."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
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- still image
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- sti
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- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
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- Control code
- 000066651831
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 377 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of photos
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432879181
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Specific material designation
- large print
- Label
- The zookeeper's war : an incredible true story from the Cold War, J. W. Mohnhaupt ; translated by Shelley Frisch
- Note
- "Originally published in 2017 in Germany as Der Zoo der Anderen by Carl Hanser Verlag."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- still image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066651831
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 377 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of photos
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781432879181
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Specific material designation
- large print
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