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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Taylor, TAYLOR FREDERICK
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781526614278
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-1427-8
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)