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3%OFFMary Elise Sarotte - The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall - 9780465049905 - V9780465049905
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The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

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Description for The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBLW3; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall,infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe,seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime,nor was it the result of a bargain between either Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.It was an accident.In The Collapse , Prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte reveals how a perfect storm of decisions ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Basic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
343g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780465049905
SKU
V9780465049905
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About Mary Elise Sarotte
Mary E. Sarotte is a Visiting History and Government Professor at Harvard University. A former White House Fellow, Humboldt Scholar, and journalist, she is the author of the Prize-winning 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe, a Financial Times book of the year.

Reviews for The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week This is easily the best book on the fall of the Berlin Wall. It reads like a thriller, it's deeply researched and smoothly written. It will remind you how unlikely it was that the Soviet empire would collapse until one day it did. Economist [This] story has not previously been ... Read more

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