Berlin: Coming in from the Cold

by KenSmith (Author)

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

  On 9th November, 1989 the Cold War ended and two cities became one. After 28 years of facing each other across a barricade of concrete and wire, East and West Germany were at last free to embrace each other for the first time. This is an eye-witness account of what happened in the streets of Berlin in the crucial months after the Wall came down. The author also wrote Inside Time and A Book of Chinese Whispers .

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $5.44

  Ken Smith, author of Inside Time , was in Berlin before, during and after the Wall came down. Culled from interviews with both East and West Germans, this is the ordinary man's story. It focuses on the history of the wall and its memories for East and West Germans, their impressions and portraits. He contrasts May Day 1989 with May Day 1990 and chronicles the change that is affecting East and West Germany. Through a series of telling portraits the Germans convey their own sentiments.