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Wall : the inside story of divided Berlin

Title: Wall : the inside story of divided Berlin / Peter Wyden.
Author: Wyden, Peter.
Publication: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1989.

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Description

762 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"[The author's] ... account of how the Wall came to be and what it has meant, not just to Berliners or Germans, but to people eveywhere ... It tells for the first time the inside story of what is by far the starkest and most enduring product of the Cold War: how the Wall was built, why the CIA was caught napping, what was-- and still is-- at stake for Washington and Moscow, how close the Berlin crisis brought the world to nuclear war, and why the Wall can't come down yet"--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. [707]-732.

Contents

Kennedy confronts Khrushchev over Berlin : history's first nuclear clash -- Moving toward the wall -- The wall goes up : Sunday, August 13, 1961 -- Aftermath -- First cracks in the wall -- Up against the wall -- The escape helpers -- One family's agony -- Fighting the wall -- Negotiating the wall -- Hurdling the wall -- Lowering the wall -- The scars.

ISBN

0671555103
9780671555108

LCCN

89036905

OCLC

ocm20057564
20057564
SCSB-1734180

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library