My Road to Berlin
Burt Glinn (Jacket photograph) Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 22 cm. 287, [1] pages, illustrations, DJ worn, torn, and chipped, erasure on front endpaper. Ink marks noted. Inscribed and dated by Brandt on title page. Willy Brandt (born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) from 1969 to 1974. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the EEC and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe. He was the first Social Democrat chancellor since 1930. Fleeing to Norway and then Sweden during the Nazi regime and working as a left-wing journalist, he took the name Willy Brandt as a pseudonym to avoid detection by Nazi agents, and then formally adopted the name in 1948. Brandt was originally considered one of the leaders of the right wing of the SPD, and earned initial fame as Governing Mayor of West Berlin. He served as Foreign Minister and as Vice Chancellor in Kurt Georg Kiesinger's cabinet, and became chancellor in 1969. As chancellor, he maintained West Germany's close alignment with the United States and focused on strengthening European integration in western Europe, while launching the new policy of Ostpolitik aimed at improving relations with Eastern Europe. Brandt was controversial on the right wing, for his Ostpolitik, and on the left wing, for his support of American policies, including the Vietnam War. In this unusual autobiography, Willy Brandt, the world-famous mayor of Berlin, tells the exciting and dramatic story of his life. Brandt says that this book is "two stories, my own and that of Berlin, since the two cannot be separated from each other." Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: Willy Brandt, Adolf Hitler, Nazis, Political Prisoners, Democracy, Underground Movement, Socialism, Soldiers, Berlin, Germany, Herbert Frahm, Blockade, German Unification
[Book #81145]
Price: $350.00