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Escape From East Berlin
- Author
- Andy Marino
- Narrator
- A.W. Miller
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 14 January 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 1 minute
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East—with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side.
January, 1989
Now a spray-painted concrete monolith, the Berlin Wall bisects the city. Kurt, a young East Berliner, often wonders what those living on the other side must think of their unseen neighbors. Do they hate the people of East Germany as completely as Kurt has been instructed to hate them?
Inspired by real events, Escape from East Berlin tells two stories of daring bids for freedom from the Eastern Bloc, set decades apart and relayed in alternating perspectives. Triumph and tragedy intertwine in this examination of both the earliest and final days of the Berlin Wall.
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Details
- Author
- Andy Marino
- Narrator
- A.W. Miller
- Duration
- 5 hours 1 minute
- Release Date
- 14 January 2025
- ISBN
- 9798855564686
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Rocks, weather and physical world
Synopsis
December, 1961Marta is a young girl who saw thirty miles of barbed wire appear across her city overnight, separating Berlin into West and East—with Marta's home on the Communist Bloc-controlled eastern side.January, 1989Now a spray-painted concrete monolith, the Berlin Wall bisects the city. Kurt, a young East Berliner, often wonders what those living on the other side must think of their unseen neighbors. Do they hate the people of East Germany as completely as Kurt has been instructed to hate them?Inspired by real events, Escape from East Berlin tells two stories of daring bids for freedom from the Eastern Bloc, set decades apart and relayed in alternating perspectives. Triumph and tragedy intertwine in this examination of both the earliest and final days of the Berlin Wall.
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