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The Year that Changed the World - The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
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The Year that Changed the World - The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Paperback)
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'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' This declamation by president
Ronald Reagan when visiting Berlin in 1987 is widely cited as the
clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The West had won,
so this version of events goes, because the West had stood firm.
American and Western European resoluteness had brought an evil
empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, in this extraordinarily
compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in
1989, begs to differ. Drawing together breathtakingly vivid,
on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the
stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in
Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin, Meyer
shows that western intransigence was only one of the many factors
that provoked such world-shaking change. More important, Meyer
contends, were the stands taken by individuals in the thick of the
struggle, leaders such as poet and playwright Vaclav Havel in
Prague; Lech Walesa; the quiet and determined reform prime minister
in Budapest, Miklos Nemeth; and the man who realized his empire was
already lost and decided, with courage and intelligence, to let it
go in peace, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Michael Meyer
captures these heady days in all their rich drama and
unpredictability, providing a thrilling chronicle of perhaps the
most important year of the 20th century.
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