Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Mohnhaupt, Jan, 1983- author.

Title:

The zookeepers' war : an incredible true story from the Cold War / J.W. Mohnhaupt ; translated by Shelley Frisch.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Description:

261 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary:

"The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall and unlike anything readers have heard before. This historical piece is an epic tale of desperate rivalries, human follies, and an animal-mad city."-- Publisher's description.

Subjects:

Zoologischer Garten (Berlin, Germany) -- History -- 20th century.

Tierpark Berlin -- History -- 20th century.

Zoos -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.

Cold War.

Berlin (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990.

Other Author:

Frisch, Shelley Laura, translator.

Other Title:

Zoo der Anderen. English

Notes:

"Originally published in 2017 in Germany as Der Zoo der Anderen by Carl Hanser Verlag"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.

Translated from the German.

Contents:

Animal people -- War and crocodile tail soup -- The zoo on the other side -- The fourth man -- Pandas and prestige -- The zoo of the future -- Big plans, little fish -- Golden times in the golden cage -- The gray giant comes tumbling down -- Old men, new era -- What became of them.

LCCN:

2019019661

ISBN:

9781501188497

Other Number:

1085214676

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

816310

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

590.734 Mohnhaup