The Berlin Wall : 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
Author(s): Frederick Taylor
The definitive - and very human - account of a divided city and its people from the acclaimed author of Dresden
The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise the brutal insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall.
A city of almost four million was cut ruthlessly in two, unleashing a potentially catastrophic East-West crisis and plunging the entire world for the first time into the fear of imminent missile borne apocalypse. This threat would vanish only when the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on the historic night of 9 November 1989.
Frederick Taylor's eagerly awaited new book is the definitive account of how the Wall, with its more than 300 towers, became a wired and lethally booby-trapped monument to a world torn apart by fiercely antagonistic ideologies.
First published 2006.
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Publication coincides with the 45th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Wall's construction Dresden sold over 16,000 hardbacks and 35,000 paperbacks Frederick Taylor will support publication with a nationwide publicity tour. Huge media interest guaranteed.
PRAISE FOR 'DRESDEN' 'In narrative power and persuasion, he has paralleled in Dresden what Antony Beevor achieved in Stalingrad' Independent on Sunday 'Well-researched and unpretentious ... fascinating ... Taylor skilfully interweaves various personal accounts of the impact of the raids' Michael Burleigh, Guardian 'Impressive ... Taylor weaves a chilling narrative from eyewitness accounts and painstaking documentary research, particularly with German sources. He explains the conceptual and strategic background with admirable clarity. His account of the air operation itself is quite superb' The Times
Frederick Taylor was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School, and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford, and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He is the author of the acclaimed bestseller, Dresden. He edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries. He lives in Cornwall.
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 16 October 2006
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Frederick Taylor
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 943.155087
- : 512