Patrick N. Major (born 1964, in Surrey) ^[1] is Professor of History at the University of Reading . Major is a specialist in the history of modern Germany , the World Wars, the Cold War , film history and popular cultural history . ^[2]

Major spent some time researching in the West German security services. He later discovered that his supervisor in the West German version of MI5 was a former Stasi agent. ^[3]

Selected publications [ edit ]

• The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956 .
• The workers' and peasants' state: communism and society in East Germany under Ulbricht, 1945?71 . Manchester University Press , Manchester, 2002. (Editor with J. Osmond) ISBN   9780719062896
• "Our friend Rommel: the Wehrmacht as "worthy enemy" in postwar British popular culture", German History , 26 (4), 2008, pp. 520?35.
• Behind the Berlin Wall: East Germany and the Frontiers of Power . Oxford University Press , Oxford, 2009. ISBN   9780199243280
• Spooked: Britain, Empire and Intelligence since 1945 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, 2009. (Edited with C. Moran) ISBN   9781443813129
• "Listening behind the Curtain: BBC broadcasting to East Germany and its Cold War echo", Cold War History , 13 (2), 2012, pp. 255?275.

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