The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 (reissued) - Softcover

Taylor, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526614278 ISBN 13: 9781526614278

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall.

During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin. It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to a divided Berlin and unleashed an East-West crisis, which lasted until the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on 9 November 1989.

Weaving together history, original archive research and personal stories, The Berlin Wall, now published in fifteen languages, is the definitive account of a divided city and its people in a time when humanity seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.

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Review:

A gripping, impassioned history of the Cold War's most malevolent symbol (New York Times)

Superb, fast-paced and readable history (Evening Standard)

Masterful (Guardian)

Compulsive reading (London Review of Books)

Book Description:

The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1526614278
• ISBN 13: 9781526614278
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576