Checkpoint Charlie the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on earth
"Checkpoint Charlie is the story of the men and women - from both sides of the Cold War's political divide - who lived, served on, or escaped through the Berlin Wall during its life span (13th August 1961 - 9th November 1989). This physical monstrosity created by the East German communist state was...
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New York :
Scribner,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: October
- Island in the Communist stream
- The spook in Berlin
- In a mousetrap now
- Split asunder
- A new border to patrol
- Who blinks first?
- Elvis is dead
- Let them come to Berlin!
- The secret army
- Searching for a grain of truth
- Catch me if you can!
- A soldier's death
- The singing Jew of Checkpoint Charlie
- Chimes of freedom
- At the edge of control
- The last escape
- A family in Berlin
- The memo that ended the Cold War
- The flood
- Lights, cameras, action!
- Aftermath
- Goodbye Checkpoint Charlie
- Epilogue: four memories.
