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- catalog abstract "Willy Brandt rose from humble beginnings as the illegitimate son of a nineteen-year-old sales assistant to the position of being the first Social Democratic Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74). He was the most charismatic German leader since Hitler. His life reflects 20th-century German history from the Weimar Republic. Nazi Germany, the rise of the Federal Republic from a defeated nation to a leading position in Europe and the world after the Second World War to the emergence of a new Germany as a result of unification with the GDR. He was Mayor of Berlin when the Wall was built (1961) and as Chancellor he initiated Ostpolitik, which established links with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and indirectly contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain. As Chairman of the North-South Commission he drew the world's attention to the plight of the Third World. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.".
- catalog alternative "Willy Brandt. English".
- catalog contributor b10165872.
- catalog coverage "Germany (West) Politics and government.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.".
- catalog description "Willy Brandt rose from humble beginnings as the illegitimate son of a nineteen-year-old sales assistant to the position of being the first Social Democratic Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74). He was the most charismatic German leader since Hitler. His life reflects 20th-century German history from the Weimar Republic. Nazi Germany, the rise of the Federal Republic from a defeated nation to a leading position in Europe and the world after the Second World War to the emergence of a new Germany as a result of unification with the GDR. He was Mayor of Berlin when the Wall was built (1961) and as Chancellor he initiated Ostpolitik, which established links with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and indirectly contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain. As Chairman of the North-South Commission he drew the world's attention to the plight of the Third World. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.".
- catalog extent "viii, 170 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312164386 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0333645626".
- catalog isPartOf "St. Antony's series".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Basingstoke : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford,".
- catalog spatial "Germany (West) Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Germany (West)".
- catalog subject "943.087/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Brandt, Willy, 1913-1992.".
- catalog subject "DD260.8 .M3713 1997".
- catalog subject "Heads of state Germany (West) Biography.".
- catalog title "Willy Brandt : a political biography / Barbara Marshall.".
- catalog title "Willy Brandt. English".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".