Autocar – August 9, 2023 UK
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Title: Autocar – August 9, 2023 UK
Author: Frederick Taylor
Language: polski
Year: 2019
Subjects: History, Current Affairs & Politics, United States History, European History, Political Theory & Ideology, World Politics, Diplomacy & International Relations, Russian & Soviet History, World History, 20th Century United States History – 1945 to 2000, German History, Europe – Politics & Government, 1917-1991 (Soviet Union) – History, General & Miscellaneous World History, 20th Century American History – Cold War, Berlin – History, East Germany (German Democratic Republic) – History, General & Miscellaneous Political Theory, German History – 1945 – 1990, German History – 1990 – present, German History – Political Aspects, Germany – Politics & Government, International Relations – General & Miscellaneous, Soviet History – Political Aspects, World History – General & Miscellaneous
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780062985873
Total pages: 76
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"Tells the story of this strange piece of architecture-that is, how the Berlin Wall was built, and how it then suddenly, and strangely, ceased to exist."*
Now with an Updated Epilogue thirty years after the fall of the Wall
On the morning of August thirteen, 1961, the residents of East Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends, and jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly split a city of four million in two. Within days the barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary metamorphosis: it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and American capitalism that stood for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested the fate of all humanity.
In the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor weaves together official history, archival materials, and personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall’s rise and fall.
"A gripping, impassioned history of the Cold War’s most malevolent symbol." –New York Times
"It’s a story we think we know, since the outlines have long figured in headlines. But as Frederick Taylor demonstrates . . . it’s also a story with odd twists and hidden secrets, many only recently revealed, some that have been forgotten and are worth repeating." -*Washington Post
"This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful totem of freedom." –The Atlantic Monthly
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