Название: Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth
Автор: Iain MacGregor
Издательство: Scribner
ISBN: 1982100036
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 21,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War.
East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, twenty bunkers, and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next twenty-eight years, at least five thousand people attempted to smash through it, swim across it, tunnel under it, or fly over it.