Product Description: Berlin has played a major role in world politics since the Nazi era and continues to be in the spotlight today as the once-again great capital of Germany. Ann Tusa presents an engaging chronicle of the Cold War partitions of this historic city, from the political strife and administrative division by the victors against Hitler, through the building and eventual destruction of the Wall...read more

Recounts the Allied response to the Soviet blockade, with numerous eyewitness accounts providing new insights into the ten-month program that kept Berlin alive

Using newly available documents, the author chronicles the partitioning of post-World War II Berlin, through the destruction of the Wall, and brings to life the experiences and tragedies of ordinary Germans living in the shadow of the Berlin Wall.

Drawing on an extensive range of sources, including the minutes of the British prosecution team and the minutes of the tribunal's closed deliberations, this study traces the trial's legal, political, and logistical problems and vividly recreates the courtroom drama