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The year that changed the world : the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall
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The year that changed the world : the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall

Author: Michael Meyer
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st Scribner hardcover edView all editions and formats
Summary:
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why.
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Named Person: Michael Meyer; Michael Meyer
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Meyer
ISBN: 9781416558453 1416558454 9781439100493 1439100497
OCLC Number: 263605402
Description: xiii, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Genesis --
The Wall --
Democracy on the Danube --
A miraculous conversion --
Parallel universes --
The Hungarian connection --
High noon --
Déjeuner sur l'herbe, or Hieronymus Bosch's Hell --
The great escape --
Vortex of change --
A kiss of death --
The fall --
Aftermath --
Denouement.
Responsibility: Michael Meyer.

Abstract:

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why.

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