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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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Leaving Berlin
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER “I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain.” Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Pe...ter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in the Iron Curtain, and news from the West slowly filtered into the country. Sís learned about beat poetry, rock ’n’ roll, blue jeans, and Coca-Cola. He let his hair grow long, secretly read banned books, and joined a rock band. Then came the Prague Spring of 1968, and for a teenager who wanted to see the world and meet the Beatles, this was a magical time. It was short-lived, however, brought to a sudden and brutal end by the Soviet-led invasion. But this brief flowering had provided a glimpse of new possibilities—creativity could be discouraged but not easily killed. By joining memory and history, Sís takes us on his extraordinary journey: from infant with paintbrush in hand to young man borne aloft by the wings of his art. The Wall is a 2007 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a 2008 Caldecott Honor Book, a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year, the winner of the 2008 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction, and a nominee for the 2008 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids. Winner of the 2008 Robert F. Sibert Award
Funeral in Berlin
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The Wall
Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an e...mblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty — a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down. The inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto.
The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989
on The Morning Of August 13, 1961, The Residents Of East Berlin Found Themselves Cut Off From Family, Friends, And Jobs In The West By A Tangle Of Barbed Wire That Ruthlessly Split A City Of Four Mill...ion In Two. Within Days The Barbed-wire Entanglement Would Undergo An Extraordinary Metamorphosis: It Became An Imposing 103-mile-long Wall Guarded By Three Hundred Watchtowers. A Physical Manifestation Of The Struggle Between Soviet Communism And American Capitalism That Stood For Nearly Thirty Years, The Berlin Wall Was The High-risk Fault Line Between East And West On Which Rested The Fate Of All Humanity. in This Captivating Work, Sure To Be The Definitive History On The Subject, Frederick Taylor Weaves Together Official History, Archival Materials, And Personal Accounts To Tell The Complete Story Of The Wall's Rise And Fall. the New York Times - William Grimes rarely Does History Wind Up Its Dramas So Neatly, With The Same Actor Reciting Both Prologue And Epilogue, And Frederick Taylor Quite Rightly Savors The Coincidence In the Berlin Wall, His Gripping, Impassioned History Of The Cold War S Most Malevolent Symbol … Mr. Taylor, The Author Of dresden, Does A Great Service In Carefully Separating Myth From Reality, Symbol From Substance As He Traces The History Of The Wall From Its Beginnings In August 1961 As A Hastily Thrown-down Barbed-wire Barrier To Its Final Form: 30 Miles Of Concrete, With 300 Watchtowers Manned By Soldiers With Orders To Shoot To Kill.
The Wall Jumper: A Berlin Story
"Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished."—Richard Eder, Los Angele...s Times Book Review When the Berlin Wall was still the most tangible representation of the Cold War, Peter Schneider made this political and ideological symbol into something personal, that could be perceived on a human level, from more than one side. In Schneider's Berlin, real people cross the Wall not to defect but to quarrel with their lovers, see Hollywood movies, and sometimes just because they can't help themselves—the Wall has divided their emotions as much as it has their country. "An honest, rich book. . . . It is one those rare books that come back at odd moments to intrude on your comfortable conclusions and easy images."—Robert Houston, Nation A novel about a young writer living in West Berlin who sets out to examine the effects of political division on life, love, and identity.
Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
An Intellectual Tour Of Present-day Berlin Explores Its Vibrant, Heterogeneous Culture And Includes Coverage Of Its Thriving Artistic Communities, Rapidly Evolving Metropolis And Disparate Eastern And... Western Views On Work, Food And Love. By The Author Of The Wall Jumper. (this Book Was Previously Listed In Forecast.)
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Follows A Small Boy And His Family As They Try To Reunite With His Father After The Berlin Wall Is Built.
1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part In Its Downfall
Peter Millar.
