About the Book: What Was the Berlin Wall?
In 1961, overnight a concrete border went up, dividing the city of Berlin into
two parts - East and West. . The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a mirror to
post-WWII politics and the Cold War Era when the United States and the USSR were
enemies, always on the verge of war. The wall meant that no one from Communist
East Berlin could travel to West Berlin, a free, democratic area. Of course that
didnt stop thousands from trying to breech the wall - more than one hundred of
them dying in the attempt. (One