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Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Paperback)
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Checkpoint Charlie - The Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 400
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With a foreword by William Boyd 'Gripping and revelatory' Tom
Holland 'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le
Carre, but all too real' Daily Mail, Must Reads 'With a gripping
narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose lives
were directly affected by that grim symbol of the East-West divide
that poisoned Europe for almost half a century, [MacGregor] has
made an important contribution to the history of our times'
Jonathan Dimbleby 'Captures brilliantly and comprehensively both
the danger and exhilaration that I and other reporters, soldiers,
and people experienced intersecting with the wall - a must-read for
anyone who wants to understand the Europe we have inherited' Jon
Snow A powerful, fascinating, and ground-breaking history of
Checkpoint Charlie, the legendary and most important military gate
on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States and
her allies confronted the USSR during the Cold War. As the sixtieth
anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall approaches in
2021, Iain MacGregor captures the mistrust, oppression, paranoia,
and fear that gripped the city throughout this period. Checkpoint
Charlie is about the nerve-wracking confrontation between the West
and the Soviet Union that contains never-before-heard interviews
with the men who built and dismantled the Wall; lovers who crossed
it; relatives and friends who lost family trying to escape over it;
German, British, French, and Russian soldiers who guarded its
checkpoints; CIA, MI6 and Stasi operatives who oversaw secret
operations across its borders; politicians whose ambitions shaped
it; journalists who recorded its story; and many more whose living
memories contributed to the full story of Checkpoint Charlie. A
brilliant work of historical journalism, Checkpoint Charlie is an
invaluable record of this period.
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