The Berlin Wall - Pierre Galante, 1965, HC, DJ, Ex-Lib*Good*

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase is supporting Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are all donated from different sources. This book is in good condition, and an ex-library book, library stamps and markings, back cover page was folded over see photos for details. If you find several items, message me and I’ll be happy to combine shipping. It started with a lie. "Nobody," said Walter Ulbricht, the dictated-to-dicta-tor of East Germany, "intends to build a wall." Two months later, in that summer of 1961, while most of Berlin's 3,350,000 people slept, Ulbricht's troops began to unroll their barbed wire "to protect the frontier... from American spies and the criminal slave traders of West Germany." On the morning of August 13th, Berliners awoke to discover telephone lines dead between East and West Berlin and train service at a standstill. Early that Sunday morning, a man went to visit his child, his young son that his mother-in-law cared for during the week. Barbed wire - and armed men - stood between them. But barbed wire would not be strong enough to hold back the discontented (Continued from front flap) East Berliners who would "vote with their feet" by fleeing to the West. The barbed wire was soon fortified with brick and concrete. Buildings that faced West Berlin were evacuated and bricked up. A red brick cemetery wall that marked the border was wreathed in barbed wire and crowned with broken glass, and homes were razed to create a no man's land. Still the refugees continued to stream into West Berlin. They leapt from windows, tunneled and crept through sewers, rammed through the gates in steel-plated trucks. Where barbed wire and river marked the border, they crawled through mud and swam the icy waters. Since 1961 the Wall has created international crises and has divided fam-* ilies. It has spawned villains, gangsters, and racketeers. But it also has produced its heroes. Here then is the story of the men and women who have lived in the shadow of the Wall.

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Location: Walsenburg, Colorado

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