Behind the Berlin Wall

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Behind the Berlin Wall
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780199243280
ISBN-13 : 019924328X
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Book Synopsis Behind the Berlin Wall by : Patrick Major

Book excerpt: On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth.


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