The Day Before the Berlin Wall: Could We Have Stopped It?

An Alternate History of Cold War Espionage

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The Day Before the Berlin Wall: Could We Have Stopped It?

An Alternate History of Cold War Espionage

The plot is based on a "legend" that was still being told by U.S. Army soldiers in Berlin in the mid-1970s. According to the legend, we had advance knowledge of the wall, and we knew that the East-German troops who were going to build it had been told to halt construction if the Americans were to take aggressive action to stop them.

The novel's webSite has a page that demonstrates that the "legend" upon which the novel is base is true.

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English
Pages
188

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The Day Before the Berlin Wall: Could We Have Stopped It?: An Alternate History of Cold War Espionage
9 November 2010, the 21st Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, VoicesUnderBerlin.com
Trade paper in English

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USA

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Format
Trade paper
Pagination
xii, 176
Number of pages
188
Dimensions
9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weight
12.2 ounces

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OL24417750M
ISBN 13
9781453825143

Excerpts

“Let me get this straight. You’ve arranged for your real ID to be planted on a body, so that the police will think that you are dead and stop looking for you, so that you can pretend to be someone who really is dead, so that you can turn in a set of genuine documents that nobody would believe were genuine if you turned them in as yourself?”
“That’s right.”
“I feel like I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole. You can call me ‘Alice,’ and you’re the Mad Hatter, I assume.”
“And we’re going to see the Queen of Hearts who will yell ‘Off with his head!’, if you don’t play your part right, Alice, so please do. I’m very attached to my head.”
Page 143, added anonymously.

It captures the sense of the absurd in the novel.

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