"The Berlin Wall was the symbol of the Cold War. For the first time, this book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the communists' decision to build the Wall in 1961. Hope Harrison's use of archival sources from the former East German and Soviet regimes is unrivaled, and from t…
"A thrilling Cold War narrative exploring two harrowing attempts to rescue East Germans by tunneling beneath the Berlin Wall, the U.S. television networks who financed and filmed them, and the Kennedy administration's unprecedented attempt to suppress both films. In the summer o…
In the summer of 1962, one year after East German Communists built the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans came up with a plan. They would risk prison, Stasi torture, even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the …
Berlin, im August 1961. In einer S-Bahn Richtung Wannsee wird ein erschossener Mann entdeckt, allem Anschein nach ein Amerikaner. Kurz darauf wird ein weiterer Toter gefunden, diesmal auf einem Schrottplatz in der Nähe des Flughafens Tempelhof. Schnell wird Hauptkommissar Tom Sy…
by Taylor, Chris, Rottman, Gordon L.
fromFortress
by Taylor, Chris, Rottman, Gordon L.
fromFortress
"The border between East and West Germany was closed on 26 May 1953. On 13 August 1961 crude fences and walls were erected around West Berlin: the Berlin Wall had been created. The Wall encircled West Berlin for 155KM, and its barriers and surveillance systems evolved over the y…
