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The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
Frederick Taylor
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Description for The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
Paperback. The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new preface to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. Num Pages: 528 pages, B&W Inserts. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC; JPSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 43. Weight in Grams: 388. 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989. 528 pages, B&W Inserts. The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new preface to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the wall. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC; JPSL. Dimension: 197 x 139 x 43. Weight: 390.
The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse. This threat would vanish only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison, breached ... Read more
The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile-borne apocalypse. This threat would vanish only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison, breached ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408802564
SKU
V9781408802564
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About Frederick Taylor
Frederick Taylor was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School, and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford, and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He is the author of the acclaimed bestseller, Dresden. He edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries. He lives in Cornwall.
Reviews for The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
PRAISE FOR 'DRESDEN' 'In narrative power and persuasion, he has paralleled in Dresden what Antony Beevor achieved in Stalingrad' Independent on Sunday 'Well-researched and unpretentious fascinating Taylor skilfully interweaves various personal accounts of the impact of the raids' Michael Burleigh, Guardian 'Impressive Taylor weaves a chilling narrative from eyewitness accounts and ... Read more