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The Berlin Wall, August 13, 1961–November 9, 1989

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Historie

“Tells the story of this strange piece of architecture—that is, how the Berlin Wall was built, and how it then suddenly, and strangely, ceased to exist.”*

Now with an Updated Epilogue thirty years after the fall of the Wall

On the morning of August thirteen, 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 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.

“A gripping, impassioned history of the Cold War's most malevolent symbol.” —New York Times

“It's a story we think we know, since the outlines have long figured in headlines. But as Frederick Taylor demonstrates . . . it's also a story with odd twists and hidden secrets, many only recently revealed, some that have been forgotten and are worth repeating.” —*Washington Post

“This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful totem of freedom.” —The Atlantic Monthly

© 2024 Harper Perennial (E-bog): 9780062985873

Release date

E-bog: 27. februar 2024

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