The Firm

by Gary Bruce

Book Overview

Based on previously classified documents and on interviews with former secret police officers and ordinary citizens, The Firm is the first comprehensive history of East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, at the grassroots level.

Focusing on Gransee and Perleberg, two East German districts located north of Berlin, Gary Bruce reveals how the Stasi monitored small-town East Germany. He paints an eminently human portrait of those involved with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195392051
• ISBN13: 9780195392050
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.7"