Behind the Berlin Wall

Behind the Berlin Wall
Author: Patrick Major
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 019924328X

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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.