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The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989

By Frederick Taylor

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2008
ISBN
0060786140, 9780060786144, 0060786132, 9780060786137
Open Library ID
OL7281724M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3118643 bytes)
Pages
564\564
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

ON the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism that stood for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity. In this captivating work, sure to be the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor weaves together official history, archival materials, and personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall's rise and fall.

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