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100 1 MacGregor, Iain,|eauthor.
245 10 Checkpoint Charlie :|bthe Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and
the most dangerous place on earth /|cIain MacGregor.
246 30 Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on
earth
264 1 New York :|bScribner,|c2019.
264 4 |c©2019
300 viii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-326) and
index.
505 0 Prologue: October -- Island in the Communist stream -- The
spook in Berlin -- In a mousetrap now -- Split asunder --
A new border to patrol -- Who blinks first? -- Elvis is
dead -- Let them come to Berlin! -- The secret army --
Searching for a grain of truth -- Catch me if you can! --
A soldier's death -- The singing Jew of Checkpoint Charlie
-- Chimes of freedom -- At the edge of control -- The last
escape -- A family in Berlin -- The memo that ended the
Cold War -- The flood -- Lights, cameras, action! --
Aftermath -- Goodbye Checkpoint Charlie -- Epilogue: four
memories.
520 "Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women -
from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who
lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall
during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November
1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East
German communist state was to divide one of the most
beautiful and by 1961, ruined cities of the world;
dividing families, friends and lovers. Its creation, and
its sudden collapse twenty-seven years later, were the key
moments of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie was the one
place in a paranoid continent where East faced West across
one hundred yards of No Man's Land. Where soldiers served,
spies watched through trained binoculars, escapees fled,
politicians made speeches, people died and, mothers wept.
The Wall was seen by many as permanent as the Himalayas.
Across the Wall's almost three decades of existence, over
two hundred people died trying to escape through it to the
West, and these are just the recorded deaths. Many more
who attempted and failed to break to freedom, would later
die of their wounds in an East German hospital or prison.
Historian Iain MacGregor travels to America, Britain,
Germany and France to talk to the many people the Berlin
Wall affected and who found themselves at the gates of
Checkpoint Charlie - either on the Allied, or Soviet side.
He interviews soldiers, politicians, journalists, spies,
policemen, refugees and escapees to build a picture of
what life was like in the city that was universally seen
as the "hot spot" of the Cold War for four decades"--
|cProvided by publisher.
611 27 Berlin Wall (Germany : 1961-1989)|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst01709753
611 27 Checkpoint Charlie (Berlin, Germany : 1961-1989)|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst01755648
611 27 Cold War (1945-1989)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01754978
648 7 1945-1990|2fast
650 0 Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989|xHistory.
650 0 Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989|xHistory.
650 0 Cold War|xSocial aspects|zGermany.
650 7 Social aspects.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01354981
651 0 Berlin (Germany)|xHistory|y1945-1990.
651 7 Germany.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210272
651 7 Germany|zBerlin.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204829
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 |iOnline version:|aMacGregor, Iain,|tCheckpoint Charlie
|dNew York : Scribner, 2019.|z9781982100056|w(DLC)
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