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Checkpoint Charlie, the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on earth, Iain MacGregor

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Checkpoint Charlie

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Iain MacGregor

the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on earth

East Germany built the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an eleven-foot-high barrier manned around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next twenty-eight years, at least five thousand people attempted to break through. Here is a powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the United States confronted the Soviet Union during the Cold War

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Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the most dangerous place on earth