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The Berlin Wall

13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 (reissued)

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The Berlin Wall

By: Frederick Taylor
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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Bloomsbury presents The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon Griffin

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.©2006 Frederick Taylor (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20th Century Europe Germany Medieval Modern Politics & Government World
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Critic reviews

A gripping, impassioned history of the Cold War’s most malevolent symbol
Superb, fast-paced and readable history
Masterful
Compulsive reading (London Review of Books)
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