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Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:09 PM

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Category Brains & Noble > Non-fiction

Condition new

SKU BN-90240

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Forget everything you thought you knew about life in the GDR. This terrifically colourful, surprising and enjoyable history of the socialist state is full of surprises — Dominic Sandbrook ― The Sunday Times

What makes this meticulous book essential reading is not so much its sense of what East Germans lost, as what we never had. A history of the GDR that adds stability, contentment and women’s rights to the familiar picture of authoritarianism — Stuart Jeffries ― Guardian

Brilliant. . . Hoyer is a historian of immense ability. . . Exhaustively researched, cleverly constructed and beautifully written, this much needed history of the GDR should be required reading across her homeland. Five stars — Saul David ― Daily Telegraph

A from-start-to-finish account of the East Germany where Hoyer was born, which means not just the Stasi but also day jobs, picnics and rock albums. The result is a complete reconstruction of a country that stopped existing 23 years ago’ ― Prospect Magazine, Books of the Year 2023

Absolutely fascinating — Andrew Marr ― LBC

A rich, counterintuitive history of a country all too often dismissed as a freak or accident of the cold war ― Observer