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A World Divided, 1961-1989
HarperCollins
June 2007
On Sale: June 1, 2007
512 pages
ISBN: 0060786132
EAN: 9780060786137
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
On the morning of August 13, 1961, the residents of East
Berlin found themselves cut off from family, friends and
jobs in the West by a tangle of barbed wire that ruthlessly
cut a city of four million in two. Within days the
barbed-wire entanglement would undergo an extraordinary
metamorphosis: it became an imposing 103-mile-long wall
guarded by three hundred watchtowers. A physical
manifestation of the struggle between Soviet Communism and
American capitalism—totalitarianism and freedom—that would
stand for nearly thirty years, the Berlin Wall was the
high-risk fault line between East and West on which rested
the fate of all humanity. Many brave people risked their
lives to overcome this lethal barrier, and some paid the
ultimate price. In this captivating work, sure to
be the definitive history on the subject, Frederick Taylor
weaves together official history, archival materials and
personal accounts to tell the complete story of the Wall's
rise and fall, from the postwar political tensions that
created a divided Berlin to the internal and external
pressures that led to the Wall's demise. In addition, he
explores the geopolitical ramifications as well as the
impact the wall had on ordinary lives that is still felt
today. For the first time the entire world faced the threat
of imminent nuclear apocalypse, a fear that would be eased
only when the very people the Wall had been built to
imprison breached it on the historic night of November 9,
1989. Gripping and authoritative, The Berlin
Wall is the first comprehensive account of a divided
city and its people in a time when the world seemed to stand
permanently on the edge of destruction.
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