Checkpoint Charlie :
MacGregor, Iain,
Checkpoint Charlie : the Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the most dangerous place on earth / Iain MacGregor. - vii, 340 pages, 16 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps
I. Exodus -- Island in the communist stream -- The spook in Berlin -- In a mousetrap now -- II. A tale of two cities -- Split asunder -- A new border to patrol -- Who blinks first? -- Elvis is dead -- Let them come to Berlin! -- III. The intelligence war -- The secret army -- Searching for a grain of truth -- Catch me if you can! -- Death of a soldier -- IV. The struggle to be free -- The singing Jew of Checkpoint Charlie -- Going underground -- Chimes of freedom -- A the edge of control -- The last escape -- V. The wall falls -- A family in Berlin -- The memo that ended the cold war -- The flood -- Lights, cameras, action! -- Aftermath -- Goodbye Checkpoint Charlie -- Epilogue : four memories.
9781472130587 hardback 9781472130570
GBB9D4436 bnb
Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Cold War.
943.10877
Checkpoint Charlie : the Cold War, the Berlin Wall and the most dangerous place on earth / Iain MacGregor. - vii, 340 pages, 16 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps
I. Exodus -- Island in the communist stream -- The spook in Berlin -- In a mousetrap now -- II. A tale of two cities -- Split asunder -- A new border to patrol -- Who blinks first? -- Elvis is dead -- Let them come to Berlin! -- III. The intelligence war -- The secret army -- Searching for a grain of truth -- Catch me if you can! -- Death of a soldier -- IV. The struggle to be free -- The singing Jew of Checkpoint Charlie -- Going underground -- Chimes of freedom -- A the edge of control -- The last escape -- V. The wall falls -- A family in Berlin -- The memo that ended the cold war -- The flood -- Lights, cameras, action! -- Aftermath -- Goodbye Checkpoint Charlie -- Epilogue : four memories.
9781472130587 hardback 9781472130570
GBB9D4436 bnb
Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Cold War.
943.10877