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Scribner
Iain MacGregor
Checkpoint Charlie
N/A
2019
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Publisher > Scribner
Author > Iain MacGregor
Title > Checkpoint Charlie
Issue > N/A
Year > 2019
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ISBN > 9781982100056
Pages > 352
Genre > History Politics Nonfiction
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2019-11
Release > 2026-08-26
Disks > 05 x 5 MB
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A constantly captivatingwellresearched and often moving The Wall Street
Journal 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 In the early 1960s East Germany committed a billion
dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall an elevenfoothigh barrier that
consisted of seventynine 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 twentyeight years at least five thousand people attempt
to smash through it swim across it tunnel under it or fly over it In 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 worlds media flocked to capture the moment which perhaps
more than any other signaled the end of the Cold War
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