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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.

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A gripping, impassioned history of the Cold War’s most malevolent symbol * New York Times *
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The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 31 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9781526614278
      978-1526614278
      ISBN-10 1526614278
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      History European history Far-left political ideologies and movements Geopolitics

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      A gripping, impassioned history of the Cold War’s most malevolent symbol * New York Times *
      Superb, fast-paced and readable history * Evening Standard *
      Masterful * Guardian *
      Compulsive reading -- London Review of Books

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