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Book:Name: MacGregor, Iain - Charlie - MacGregor, Iain
Format: epub
Size: 21.52 MB
Description:Title: MacGregor, Iain - Charlie
Author: MacGregor, Iain
Language: English
Year: 2019
Subjects: History, Politics, Nonfiction
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9781982100049
Total pages: 498 str.
Download from RapidGatorA powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.
East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, twenty bunkers, and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next twenty-eight years, at least five thousand people attempted to smash through it, swim across it, tunnel under it, or fly over it.
In November 1989, the East German leadership buckled in the face of a civil revolt that culminated in half a million East Berliners demanding an end to the ban on free movement. The world's media flocked to capture the moment which, perhaps more than any other, signaled the end of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie had been the epicenter of...
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