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A narrative account of the Berlin Wall's demise in 1989. Through first-person interviews, in The Wall people recount how East and West confronted each other for nearly 30 years.
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"The most complete narrative . . . of the Wall s demise." "Sunday Telegraph""
"Excellent account . . . timely and exhaustively detailed." --Sunday Times
"The most complete narrative . . . of the Wall's demise." --Sunday Telegraph
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"Excellent account . . . timely and exhaustively detailed." --Sunday Times
"The most complete narrative . . . of the Wall's demise." --Sunday Telegraph
East Berlin, Sunday 13 August 1961: Reuters journalist Adam Kellett-Long sat in front of his typewriter trying to compose the day-lead. 'I suppose I was in the third sentence when the phone rang. I picked it up and a man's voice I didn't recognise said in German "don't go to bed this night". At 1.11 the ADN teleprinter in Kellett-Long's office opened up again and began to run a generalised Warsaw Pact communique from Moscow. It read, '...In the face of the aggressive aspirations of the reactionary forces of West Germany and its NATO allies the Warsaw Pact proposes reliable safeguards and effective control be established around the whole territory of West Berlin.' The unthinkable had actually happened: the border was being closed and the city permanently divided in half. Berlin, writes Christopher Hilton, 'is positively heaving with extraordinary personal memories' like this one. Across a twelve-foot wall and the width of a white painted line at Checkpoint Charlie East and West confronted each other for nearly thirty years, yet it is the individual stories that are perhaps most telling.Astonishingly, these memories are largely untapped, so until now the complete story of the Berlin Wall - the people's story - has remained untold. Leading world politicians, the American military, the British military, East German border guards and ordinary people on both sides all feature in the book, their memories expertly interwoven into a remarkable, seamless narrative.
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- PublisherThe History Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0750930551
- ISBN 13 9780750930550
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- Number of pages416
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