The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor


ISBN
9780747585541
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
752
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 26mm

The definitive - and very human - account of a divided city and its people from the acclaimed author of Dresden.

The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall.

A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile borne apocalypse. This threat would vanish only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on the historic night of 9 November 1989.

Frederick Taylor's eagerly awaited new book is the definitive account of how the Wall, with its more than 300 towers, became a wired and lethally booby-trapped monument to a world torn apart by fiercely antagonistic ideologies.
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