American Forces in Berlin: Cold War Outpost, 1945-1994

Washington, DC: United States Dept. of Defense, 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Trade paperback. Good. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some sticker residue on t-p. Front cover has curled edge.. vii, [1], 200 p. Illustrations (some in color). Suggested Readings. Index. Provides an illustrated history of people, places, and events in West Berlin during the Cold War. Most of the illustrations are black and white photographs. The most recent ones are in color. Covers such events as the airlift, the Berlin Crisis of 1958-1962, and the years of the Berlin Wall. Includes a list of American commanders, a bibliography, and an index. On the cover, the dates are printed '45 and '94. From an on-line posting: "Robert P. Grathwol served from January 1998 to December 2007 as director of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's activities in the United States, and, from 2004 to July 2008, as President of the board of directors of American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Grathwol is also a partner in R & D Associates, a historical research and consulting firm which he co-founded in 1988. He is the principal author of Berlin and the American Military: A Cold War Chronicle (1999), Oral History and Postwar German-American Relations: Resources in the United States (1997), and Building for Peace: The U.S. Army Engineers in Europe, 1945-1991 (2006). For over two decades he held faculty appointments, most recently at Washington State University from 1979 to 1990. He was a Fulbright Scholar in France and, during a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany, completed his first book, Stresemann and the DNVP: Reconciliation and Revenge in German Foreign Policy, 1924-1928 (1980). Dr. Grathwol has degrees from Providence College (B.A. ), the University of Strasbourg (Diplôme Supérieur), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.)." From an on-line posting: "Donita Moorhus is a researcher, oral historian, and writer. She has conducted oral history interviews since 1988 and has been an interviewer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers History Office as well as the Women in Journalism Oral History Project. She has been a consultant on oral history to the Society of Woman Geographers and has conducted workshops on oral history for members of the Society in Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. After serving as an interviewer for one year, she was named Director of the Washington Press Club Foundation Oral History Project in June 1993. Ms Moorhus is managing partner of R & D Associates and serves as both project manager and oral historian for projects related to military construction and the accomplishments of the U.S. Army Engineers during the Cold War. Prior to moving to the Washington D.C. metropolitan area in 1991, she spent fifteen years in not-for-profit management and five years as an independent consultant in New York City. Ms Moorhus has a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan, with a major in English, and an M.S. degree from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services. In 1992 she attended the Summer Institute in Oral History at Columbia University."