Berlin: Wall's End
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- Synopsis
- An eBook short.A selection from The Magic Lantern, Timothy Garton Ash's classic first-person history of the Revolution of '89 and the end of the Cold War--an on-the-ground glimpse of the fall of the Berlin Wall. "In the beginning was the Wall itself." So writes matchless chronicler and observer Timothy Garton Ash on the strange life and stranger death of the Wall that divided two worlds. Garton Ash takes the reader with him as he walks through the Wall and across no-man's land in early November of 1989, where as recently as that February a man attempting to cross had been shot dead. But November 9 ushers in a new world. Garton Ash introduces us to the East Berliners lining up for the "greeting money" offered at banks; the newfound wanderers looking for the ferry to England; and the chaotic, intoxicating political atmosphere sweeping through the reunited city. This is a vivid and enduring picture of a defining moment in history, when a wall came tumbling down.
- Copyright:
- 1999
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781101911242
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 11/13/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Timothy Garton Ash
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.