The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 Frederick Taylor Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Appearance Of A Hastily-Constructed Barbed Wire Entanglement Through Heart Berlin During Night 12-13 August 1961 Was Both Dramatic And Unexpected Within Days It Had Started To Metamorphose Into Structure That Would Come Symbolise Brutal Insanity Cold War: Wall City Almost Four Million Cut Ruthlessly In Two Unleashing Potentially Catastrophic East-West Crisis Plunging Entire World For First Time Fear Imminent Missile-Borne Apocalypse This Threat Vanish Only When Very People Been Built Imprison Breached On Historic 9 November 1989 Reveals Strange Chilling Story How Initial Barrier System Conceived Then Systematically Extended Adapted Strengthened Over Thirty Years Patrolled By Vicious Dogs Guards Shoot-To-Kill Orders With Its More Than 300 Towers Became Wired Lethally Booby-Trapped Monument Torn Apart Fiercely Antagonistic Ideologies Tragic Consequences Personal Political Terms Affecting Lives Germans Non-Germans Alike Myriad Cruel Inhuman Occasionally Absurd Ways Is Definitive Account Divided Σελίδες: 528 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm