The Berlin Wall : 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 (reissued), Paperback / softback Book

The Berlin Wall : 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 (reissued) Paperback / softback

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The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. During the night of 12–13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin.

It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall.

Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to a divided Berlin and unleashed an East–West crisis, which lasted until the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on 9 November 1989. Weaving together history, original archive research and personal stories, The Berlin Wall, now published in fifteen languages, is the definitive account of a divided city and its people in a time when humanity seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.

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