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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth

byIain MacGregor

Iain MacGregor's Checkpoint Charlie investigates the cold war, the berlin wall, and the most dangerous place on earth, grounding a large subject in the people and choices that shaped it. Using archival evidence, political analysis, and reconstructed events, Checkpoint Charlie moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Checkpoint Charlie within history and political science, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Checkpoint Charlie emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781982100049