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.
Frederick Taylor tells the whole gripping story of the post-war political conflict that led to the tragedy of a divided Berlin, when a city of almost four million was ruthlessly cut in two. A potentially catastrophic East-West crisis was unleashed that plunged the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent nuclear apocalypse. A threat that would vanish only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on the historic night of 9 November 1989.
Weaving together official 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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