In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver are interviewed on their new book, An Environmental History of the Civil War.

Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.

Through histories of extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography.

Considering the role of sound in shifting conceptions of the ocean, Ritts and Shiga explore how the US Navy mimicked whale, dolphin, and popoise communication techniques during the Cold War.