Death at the Berlin Wall

by Pertti Ahonen

During its 28-year existence, the Berlin Wall was the foremost symbol of the Cold War division of Germany - and of Europe as a whole. But it was also a very concrete site of separation and suffering that claimed the lives of at least 136 people. Taking these deaths at its point of departure, this book reconstructs twelve individual tragedies that occurred at the Wall between 1961 and 1989. They include deaths of escapees from the GDR, by far the largest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199546304
• ISBN13: 9780199546305
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"