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

by Iain MacGregor

In the early 1960s, East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall, 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 attempt

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781982100049