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The Zookeepers’ War audiobook
- By: J.W. Mohnhaupt
- Narrator: Jacques Roy
- Category: Europe, Germany, History
- Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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The Zookeepers’ War Audiobook Summary
The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin Wall.
“The liveliness of Mohnhaupt’s storytelling and the wonderful eccentricity of his subject matter make this book well worth a read.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Living in West Berlin in the 1960s often felt like living in a zoo, everyone packed together behind a wall, with the world always watching. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, East Berlin and its zoo were spacious and lush, socialist utopias where everything was perfectly planned… and then rarely completed.
Berlin’s two zoos in East and West quickly became symbols of the divided city’s two halves. So no one was terribly surprised when the head zookeepers on either side started an animal arms race–rather than stockpiling nuclear warheads, they competed to have the most pandas and hippos. Soon, state funds were being diverted toward giving these new animals lavish welcomes worthy of visiting dignitaries. West German presidential candidates were talking about zoo policy on the campaign trail. And eventually politicians on both side of the Wall became convinced that if their zoo proved to be inferior, that would mean their country’s whole ideology was too.
A quirky piece of Cold War history unlike anything you’ve heard before, The Zookeepers’ War is an epic tale of desperate rivalries, human follies, and an animal-mad city in which zookeeping became a way of continuing politics by other means.
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The Zookeepers’ War Audiobook Narrator
Jacques Roy is the narrator of The Zookeepers’ War audiobook that was written by J.W. Mohnhaupt
About the Author(s) of The Zookeepers’ War
J.W. Mohnhaupt is the author of The Zookeepers’ War
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The Zookeepers’ War Full Details
| Narrator | Jacques Roy |
| Length | 6 hours 57 minutes |
| Author | J.W. Mohnhaupt |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 27, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781797100814 |
Additional info
The publisher of the The Zookeepers’ War is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781797100814.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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