Editorial Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Fecha de edición septiembre 2007
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781408802564
752 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity
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 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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