Behind the Berlin Wall East Germany and the frontiers of power /
On the 13th of August 1961 18,000,000 East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party mem...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
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2010.
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| Summary: | On the 13th of August 1961 18,000,000 East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members caught out by Sunday the 13th. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 321 p.) : ill., maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191714061 (ebook) : |