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The Berlin Wall
- Author
- Frederick Taylor
- Narrator
- Gordon Griffin
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 4 June 2026
- Run Time
- 24 hours 9 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall.
During the night of 12–13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin. It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to a divided Berlin and unleashed an East–West crisis, which lasted until the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on 9 November 1989.
Weaving together history, original archive research and personal stories, The Berlin Wall, now published in fifteen languages, is the definitive account of a divided city and its people in a time when humanity seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.
Critics Review
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A gripping, impassioned history of the Cold War’s most malevolent symbol
New York Times
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Superb, fast-paced and readable history
Evening Standard
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Masterful
Guardian
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Compulsive reading
London Review of Books
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Details
- Author
- Frederick Taylor
- Narrator
- Gordon Griffin
- Duration
- 24 hours 9 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 June 2026
- ISBN
- 9781037206948
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- European history, Geopolitics, Far-left political ideologies and movements
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon GriffinThe astonishing drama of Cold War nuclear poker that divided humanity - reissued with a new Postscript to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall.During the night of 12–13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin. It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to a divided Berlin and unleashed an East–West crisis, which lasted until the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on 9 November 1989.Weaving together history, original archive research and personal stories, The Berlin Wall, now published in fifteen languages, is the definitive account of a divided city and its people in a time when humanity seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.
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