The Wall: The People's Story

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Berlin is positively heaving with extraordinary personal memories. Across a twelve-foot wall and the width of a white painted line at Checkpoint Charlie, East and West confronted each other for nearly thirty years, yet it is the individual stories that are perhaps most telling. Astonishingly, these memories are largely untapped, so until now the complete story of the Berlin Wall -- the people's story -- has remained untold. Hilton has been captivated by Berlin's unique past for three decades, conducting hundreds ...
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Overview

Berlin is positively heaving with extraordinary personal memories. Across a twelve-foot wall and the width of a white painted line at Checkpoint Charlie, East and West confronted each other for nearly thirty years, yet it is the individual stories that are perhaps most telling. Astonishingly, these memories are largely untapped, so until now the complete story of the Berlin Wall -- the people's story -- has remained untold. Hilton has been captivated by Berlin's unique past for three decades, conducting hundreds of interviews there since the Wall came down. Leading world politicians, the American military, the British military, East German border guards and ordinary people on both sides all feature in the book, their memories expertly interwoven into a remarkable, seamless narrative. The result is an extraordinarily vivid, occasionally harrowing, sometimes touching story -- the best real-life novel you'll ever read.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780752458335
  • Publisher: The History Press
  • Publication date: 9/1/2011
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 480
  • Sales rank: 1,349,409
  • Product dimensions: 4.80 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Maps v
Acknowledgements vii
Prologue xi
1 Fault Line 1
2 Saturday Night 29
3 And Sunday Morning 43
4 First Week of the Rest of Your Life 95
5 Cold as Ice 152
6 The Strangeness 208
7 The Bullet Run 239
8 Thaw 277
9 A Quiet Night Like This 309
10 Dawn 349
11 Pieces 367
Notes 408
Bibliography 430
The Death Strip: The Toll 435
Index 438
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