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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Mohnhaupt, Jan, 1983- author.     Subjects     Zoologischer Garten (Berlin, Germany) -- History -- 20th century.     Tierpark Berlin -- History -- 20th century.     Zoos -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.     Zoo animals -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.     Cold War.     Berlin (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mohnhaupt, Jan, 1983- author.       by title:      The zookeepers' war ...         MARC Display

The zookeepers' war : an incredible true story from the Cold War / J.W. Mohnhaupt ; translated by Shelley Frisch. by Mohnhaupt, Jan, 1983- author. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. Subjects Zoologischer Garten (Berlin, Germany) -- History -- 20th century.   Tierpark Berlin -- History -- 20th century.   Zoos -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.   Zoo animals -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.   Cold War.   Berlin (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990. ISBN:  9781501188497 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 1501188496 (hardcover : alk. paper) : Description:  261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Contents:  Prologue: 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 -- Epilogue: Old men, new era. Requests:  0 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."-- In the 1960s, the East Berlin zoo was spacious and lush, a socialist utopia where everything was perfectly planned-- but rarely successfully finished. Berlin's two zoos became symbols of the divided city's two halves. Eventually the head zookeepers on either side started an animal arms race: competing to have the most pandas and hippos. State funds were quietly diverted to give these new animals lavish welcomes worthy of visiting dignitaries. West German presidential candidates were talking about zoo policy on the campaign trail. Mohnhaupt tells a tale of desperate rivalries, human follies, and an animal-mad city in which zookeeping became a way of continuing politics by other means. -- adapted from jacket   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 590.73431 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 590.73431 Mohnhaupt Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 590.73431 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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