Crossing the river : a memoir of the American left, the Cold War, and life in East Germany /
Faced with an accusation from the US Army's highest legal authority in 1952, Grossman left his unit stationed in Bavaria and swam the Danube to East Germany. He traces his childhood and experiences as a student, worker, and soldier; then describes life in his new home among a surprisingly large...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3296419 |
Table of Contents:
- Crossing the border. Childhood
- Harvard years
- Working
- Soldier. Life in East Germany. Starting in a new land
- The clubhouse and the lathe
- A student again
- Journalist in a divided city
- Radio, Robeson, and the Prague Spring
- Freelancing in East Germany
- Tremors
- Death of a nation
- A new life in united Germany
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain?
- Epilogue : eau de cologne
- Afterword and selected bibliography by Mark Solomon.