Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
#537 of 3,809 books · #185 in History
Won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (2004).
Anna Funder delivers a powerfully rendered account of the resistance against East Germany's communist dictatorship in these harrowing, personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain—and, especially, of life under the iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany's brutal state security force.
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionWonMajor(2004)
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