Behind the Berlin Wall

Behind the Berlin Wall PDF Author: Patrick Major
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019924328X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Book Description
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.