The Tunnels : Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill (Hardcover)

from arelenriel

In the 1960's the East German government put up a border wall in the city of Berlin to to define the border between East and West Germany. Citizens living in East Germany that had once been able to travel freely to see friends and family in West Berlin as well as being able to travel into West Be...

from ralphz

It's a time that's hard to fathom now. A country divided, a capital divided, a people divided. In East Berlin, there were people desperate to leave, and the building of the wall in 1961 just steeled their resolve. This is the story of those who tried to get away, and how NBC and CBS raced to have...

from tom471

This was a very informative book about a dark time for the city of Berlin, Germany. The book opens with an overview of why the Berlin wall was built in 1961. The national border of East Germany was tightly guarded, but the sector border with West Berlin was very porous. From the late 1940s to 196...

from linda.marsheells

----If it was possible to give this book 10* i would. Be forewarned, in all honesty it's not a book the reader will fly through, but WILL find thoroughly absorbing. I know this may sound stupid but i truly shook my head, said nooooo ..... YES!.....and those pages kept turning. Ok so the book is h...

from bks1953

This is a funky book, concerning what to some of us is recent history: the construction of the Berlin Wall in August, 1961. My second college roommate was a member of the US Army and was stationed in Berlin when the Wall was constructed. Decades later, I still remember him describing the anxiety,...