by Hans-Hermann Hertle · Christoph Links Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783861536505
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«The Berlin Wall Story: Biography of a Monument» is a history book by Hans-Hermann Hertle, published by Christoph Links Verlag in paperback (248 pages, in English).
The book answers why the Berlin Wall was built, where it ran, how escapes were attempted and how many died trying, and why it fell. Numerous photographs document the construction of that system of barbed wire, alarm fences and concrete, along with stories of escapes and the events surrounding its fall.
The work was originally published in 2009; this English edition, translated by Timothy Jones, appeared in 2011.
For readers interested in twentieth-century German history, the Cold War and the legacy of the Berlin Wall.
