Description |
1 online resource : map |
Contents |
Cover; Title; Contents; Quote; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Prologue; One: Fault Line; Two: Saturday Night; Three: And Sunday Morning; Four: First Week of the Rest of Your Life; Five: Cold as Ice; Six: The Strangeness; Seven: The Bullet Run; Eight: Thaw; Nine: A Quiet Night Like This; Ten: Dawn; Eleven: Pieces; Epilogue: Corridor of Emptiness; Notes; Bibliography; The Death Strip: The Toll; Copyright |
Summary |
For almost three decades, the Cold War was focused on Berlin, where the two (nuclear-armed) sides were kept apart by a twelve-foot wall, which had appeared almost overnight in August 1961. For a generation, until its fall in November 1989, it not only divided the city of Berlin, but also symbolised the confrontation between capitalist West and socialist East. In this astonishing book, journalist Christopher Hilton has collected together the individual stories of those whose lives it affected, including international politicians, American and British soldiers, East German border guards and, mos |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
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Interviews -- Germany -- Berlin
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Cold War -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Berlin
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
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Interviews
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Social aspects
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Social conditions
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Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Germany
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Germany -- Berlin
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780752466989 |
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0752466984 |
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