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Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Iain MacGregor
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Checkpoint Charlie written by Iain MacGregor and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with History categories.
A “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War. In the early 1960s, East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, twenty bunkers, and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next twenty-eight years, at least five thousand people attempt to smash through it, swim across it, tunnel under it, or fly over it. In 1989, the East German leadership buckled in the face of a civil revolt that culminated in half a million East Berliners demanding an end to the ban on free movement. The world’s media flocked to capture the moment which, perhaps more than any other, signaled the end of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie had been the epicenter of global conflict for nearly three decades. Now, “in capturing the essence of the old Cold War [MacGregor] may just have helped us to understand a bit more about the new one” (The Times, London)—the mistrust, oppression, paranoia, and fear that gripped the world throughout this period. Checkpoint Charlie is about the nerve-wracking confrontation between the West and USSR, highlighting such important global figures as Eisenhower, Stalin, JFK, Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedung, Nixon, Reagan, and other politicians of the period. He also includes never-before-heard interviews with the men who built and dismantled the Wall; children who crossed it; relatives and friends who lost loved ones trying to escape over it; military policemen and soldiers who guarded the checkpoints; CIA, MI6, and Stasi operatives who oversaw operations across its borders; politicians whose ambitions shaped it; journalists who recorded its story; and many more whose living memories contributed to the full story of Checkpoint Charlie.
Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Tom Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
Release Date : 2006-08
Checkpoint Charlie written by Tom Arnold and has been published by Infinity Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08 with categories.
Checkpoint Charlie is an action/coming-of-age story set in Europe in 1966. Four young expatriates befriend two dissident East Berliners and undertake a dangerous scheme to help them escape to freedom.
Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Iain MacGregor
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-10-24
Checkpoint Charlie written by Iain MacGregor and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with History categories.
'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le Carre, but all too real' Daily Mail, Must Reads 'With a gripping narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose lives were directly affected by that grim symbol of the East-West divide that poisoned Europe for almost half a century, [MacGregor] has made an important contribution to the history of our times' Jonathan Dimbleby 'Captures brilliantly and comprehensively both the danger and exhilaration that I and other reporters, soldiers, and people experienced intersecting with the wall - a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the Europe we have inherited' Jon Snow A powerful, fascinating, and ground-breaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the legendary and most important military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States and her allies confronted the USSR during the Cold War. As the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches in 2019, Iain MacGregor captures the mistrust, oppression, paranoia, and fear that gripped the city throughout this period. Checkpoint Charlie is about the nerve-wracking confrontation between the West and the Soviet Union that contains never-before-heard interviews with the men who built and dismantled the Wall; lovers who crossed it; relatives and friends who lost family trying to escape over it; German, British, French, and Russian soldiers who guarded its checkpoints; CIA, MI6 and Stasi operatives who oversaw secret operations across its borders; politicians whose ambitions shaped it; journalists who recorded its story; and many more whose living memories contributed to the full story of Checkpoint Charlie. A brilliant work of historical journalism, Checkpoint Charlie is an invaluable record of this period.
Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Iain MacGregor
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2019-11-05
Checkpoint Charlie written by Iain MacGregor and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with History categories.
A “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” (The Wall Street Journal) history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the USSR during the Cold War. In the early 1960s, East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall, an eleven-foot-high barrier that consisted of seventy-nine miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, twenty bunkers, and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next twenty-eight years, at least five thousand people attempt to smash through it, swim across it, tunnel under it, or fly over it. In 1989, the East German leadership buckled in the face of a civil revolt that culminated in half a million East Berliners demanding an end to the ban on free movement. The world’s media flocked to capture the moment which, perhaps more than any other, signaled the end of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie had been the epicenter of global conflict for nearly three decades. Now, “in capturing the essence of the old Cold War [MacGregor] may just have helped us to understand a bit more about the new one” (The Times, London)—the mistrust, oppression, paranoia, and fear that gripped the world throughout this period. Checkpoint Charlie is about the nerve-wracking confrontation between the West and USSR, highlighting such important global figures as Eisenhower, Stalin, JFK, Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedung, Nixon, Reagan, and other politicians of the period. He also includes never-before-heard interviews with the men who built and dismantled the Wall; children who crossed it; relatives and friends who lost loved ones trying to escape over it; military policemen and soldiers who guarded the checkpoints; CIA, MI6, and Stasi operatives who oversaw operations across its borders; politicians whose ambitions shaped it; journalists who recorded its story; and many more whose living memories contributed to the full story of Checkpoint Charlie.
Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Wieland Giebel
language : un
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05-30
Checkpoint Charlie written by Wieland Giebel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-30 with categories.
Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Brian Garfield
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Checkpoint Charlie written by Brian Garfield and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Fiction categories.
DIVA dozen stories tracking the CIA’s most adept—and unusual—spy /divDIVThere are no more spies like Charlie Dark. An old-timer whose experience stretches back to the Second World War, his main distinction is that after decades playing the game he is still alive. He is overweight, clumsy, and afraid of guns—a nonconformist in an agency built on toeing the line. Though his superiors hate him for his eccentricities, they privately admit that he may be the best spy they have./divDIV /divDIVCharlie travels the globe in these twelve stories, working in Berlin, Moscow, Africa, and Asia. He fights a female assassin in Dar es Salaam, and looks for a computer chip lost in the permanent snows of the Aleutian Islands. He adapts continuously, for each adventure is a new puzzle, and a new opportunity to die./div
Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Jesper Bernt
language : da
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2009-04-30
Checkpoint Charlie written by Jesper Bernt and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-30 with categories.
»Et eller andet gør ondt. Inden i mig. Gamle sår. Flydende lava. Et barberblad, eller er det en håndfuld glasskår, jeg engang har slugt og ikke kan få ud igen, og som nu ligger og skærer i mig, skærer hver gang jeg drejer mig bare lidt i taxaens slidte sorte lædersæde. Jeg bløder. Indvendigt. Og som et såret dyr har jeg ingen idé om hvordan jeg skal helbrede mig selv.« Jonas har det hele. To børn, smuk kone og et varmeisoleret etplanshus i Vanløse. En dag forlader han hjemmet i sit bedste jakkesæt. Han vil væk og har booket en billet til Berlin, men da han når lufthavnen, er flyet forsinket indtil næste morgen. Han indlogerer sig på et lufthavnshotel og fordriver ventetiden med en sidste nat i København. Det bliver begyndelsen på en odyssé tilbage i hans tidligere miljø på Vesterbro, hvor han holdt til, før han endte som frisørklippet IT-mand med penge og harmoni på kontoen. På det gamle stamværtshus møder Jonas sin engang bedste ven Andreas, og sammen drives de ind i stenbroens nat og langt ud i fortidens minefelter. Blodspor trækkes, og skridt for skridt bliver baggrunden for Jonas' flugt blotlagt. Checkpoint Charlie er en sydende, rå og medrivende beretning fra forstæderne til byens bagside. Fra København nu og her. Fra Vanløse til Vesterbro. Og til Berlin, måske.
Wall Memorials And Heritage
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Author : Sybille Frank
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-06-17
Wall Memorials And Heritage written by Sybille Frank and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-17 with Art categories.
Analysing the transformation of Berlin’s former Allied border control point, "Checkpoint Charlie," into a global heritage industry, this volume provides an introduction to, and a theoretically informed structuring of, the interdisciplinary international heritage debate. This crucial case study demonstrates that an unregulated global heritage industry has developed in Berlin which capitalizes on the internationally very attractive – but locally still very painful – heritage of the Berlin Wall. Frank explores the conflicts that occur when private, commercial interests in interpreting and selling history to an international audience clash with traditional, institutionalized public forms of local and national heritage-making and commemorative practices, and with the victims’ perspectives. Wall Memorials and Heritage illustrates existing approaches to heritage research and develops them in dialogue with Berlin’s traditions of conveying history, and the specific configuration of the heritage industry at "Checkpoint Charlie". Productively integrating theory with empirical evidence, this innovative book enriches the international literature on heritage and its economic and political contexts.
Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Brian Garfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981-01-01
Checkpoint Charlie written by Brian Garfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Short stories depict the adventures of Charlie Dark, a fat nonconformist spy, as he performs dangerous missions for the CIA
The Duel At Checkpoint Charlie
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Author : Akin Tekin
language : en
Publisher: www.akintekin.net
Release Date : 2015-09-08
The Duel At Checkpoint Charlie written by Akin Tekin and has been published by www.akintekin.net this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the year 5021 our Planet had turned into a planet full of nuclear waste. An American family in this chaos seeks sanctuary in the pages of a novel written in ancient times. The hero of this novel Erol Atila is a student, an invincible boxer in West Berlin. He meets Angela in East Communist Berlin he admired. They fall in love with one another.. Because of his hopeless love with her finally he decides to smuggle Angela to Free Berlin although she was pregnant. He is shot there, at the Checkpoint Charlie,. But Angela manages to flee to West Berlin. The communist court sentences Erol to life imprisonment. Short before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 9th November 1989 Communist Germany Erol tries cuicide, but prison guard rescue him, they two escapes from prison to West Berlin. Erol is free he finds his son and darling in West Berlin. But Angelika is married with a rich man.....