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02315aam a2200373Ia 4500 001 BB42CE2CABAF11E1845906A16AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120601010204 008 100206s2010 mduab b 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0742560910 (pbk) 020 $a 9780742560918 (pbk) 035 $a (OCoLC)505422287 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $c BTCTA $d SILO $d TOH $d CTB $d HQC $d BDX $d FVC $d BUP $d SILO 100 1 $a Smyser, W. R., $d 1931- 245 1 $a Kennedy and the Berlin Wall / $c W. R. Smyser. 250 $a 1st paperback ed. 260 $a Lanham, MD : $b Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, $c 2010. 300 $a xv, 295 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-287) and index. 505 0 $a "Ich bin ein Berliner" -- "A bone in my throat" -- "Let the word go forth" -- "Alas, Mr. Ambassador, we shall die together" -- "I never met a man like that" -- "This is the answer!" -- "The East Germans have done us a favor" -- "I am not afraid of escalation" -- "The game continues" -- "We'll talk the problem to death" -- "This may end in a big war" -- "Treaties are like maidens and roses" -- "We'll never have another day like this" -- "Our hope is the Ami" -- "We are the people." 520 $a Kennedy and the Berlin Wall tells the full story of the Berlin Crisis that riveted international attention and brought the world to the brink of nuclear warfare as Soviet and American tanks opposed each other on the streets of Berlin. Drawing on his own experience as an American diplomat in Germany during the period, as well as on recently opened archives, Smyser tells the story of how the fate of a city affected national politics as well as geopolitics. 600 10 $a Kennedy, John F. $q (John Fitzgerald), $d 1917-1963. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Foreign relations. 651 0 $a Germany (West) $x Foreign relations. 600 10 $a Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, $d 1894-1971. 650 0 $a Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989. 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $x International status. 941 $a 3 952 $l OOAX232 $d 20150506011332.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140415021142.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20120601020848.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BB42CE2CABAF11E1845906A16AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search