Berlin in the Cold War, 1948-1990: Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Vol. VI: 6 (Whitehall Histories) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415448700 ISBN 13: 9780415448703

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

This volume consists of a book and fully searchable DVD containing a facsimile collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to critical developments regarding Berlin, its quadripartite administration, and role in the Cold War during the crises of 1948-49, 1959-61 and 1988-90.

These events were each set within very different international contexts, but four interrelated themes are nevertheless common to each of the three chapters of the volume: the British Government’s insistence, in conjunction with the Americans and the French, on upholding and safeguarding the rights of the four occupying powers in Berlin; British concerns with broader matters of military security in Western Europe as a whole and Germany in particular; the interaction of the four occupying powers with one another; and the questions raised by demographic change, especially population movements from east to west. All of the documents dealing with the events of 1989-90 fall within the UK’s 30-year rule and are therefore not yet in the public domain.

About this title

About the Author:

Keith Hamilton is a Historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Senior Editor of Documents on British Policy Overseas.

Patrick Salmon is Chief Historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Stephen Twigge is a Senior Historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0415448700
• ISBN 13: 9780415448703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Hamilton Keith, Salmon Patrick