Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall by Bodleian Library, Andrew Roberts

Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall

Postcards From... (Bodleian Library)

Bodleian Library, Andrew Roberts

112 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of August 13, 1961, hundreds of East German troops ...

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