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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth [Audiobook]
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Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B07P87LYLY | 2019 | 10 hours and 4 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Iain MacGregor
Narrator: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
A powerful, fascinating, and groundbreaking history of Checkpoint Charlie, the famous military gate on the border of East and West Berlin where the US confronted the USSR during the Cold War.
East Germany committed a billion dollars to the creation of the Berlin Wall in the early 1960s, an 11-foot-high barrier that consisted of 79 miles of fencing, 300 watchtowers, 250 guard dog runs, and 20 bunkers and was operated around the clock by guards who shot to kill. Over the next 28 years, at least 5,000 people attempted to smash through it, swim across it, tunnel under it, or fly over it.
In November 1989, the East German leadership buckled in the face of a civil revolt that culminated in half a million East Berliners demanding an end to the ban on free movement. The world’s media flocked to capture the moment that, perhaps more than any other, signaled the end of the Cold War. Checkpoint Charlie had been the epicenter of global conflict for nearly three decades.