What was the Berlin Wall? / by Nico Medina ; illustrated by Stephen Marchesi.
"The Berlin Wall finally came down in 1989. Now readers can find out why it was built in the first place; and what it meant for Berliners living on either side of it. Here's the fascinating story of a city divided. In 1961, overnight a concrete border went up, dividing the city of Berlin into two parts - East and West. . The story of the Berlin Wall holds up a mirror to post-WWII politics and the Cold War Era when the United States and the USSR were enemies, always on the verge of war. The wall meant that no one from Communist East Berlin could travel to West Berlin, a free, democratic area. Of course that didn't stop thousands from trying to breech the wall - more than one hundred of them dying in the attempt. (One East Berliner actually ziplined to freedom!) Author Nico Medina explains the spy-vs-spy politics of the time as well as what has happened since the removal of one of the most divisive landmarks in modern history." -- Amazon.com
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524789688
- ISBN: 1524789682
- ISBN: 9781524789671
- ISBN: 1524789674
- ISBN: 9781544436982
- ISBN: 154443698X
- ISBN: 9781536459036
- Physical Description: 108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Workshop,an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 108).
- Formatted Contents Note:
- What was the Berlin Wall? -- "You must go to Berlin" -- An iron curtain -- Blockade -- Cold war -- The wall -- The first victims -- Checkpoint Charlie -- "Ich bin ein Berliner" -- Higher and higher -- "Tear down this wall!" -- Germany united -- Timelines -- Bibliography.
- Target Audience Note:
- 910L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.3 1 504888.
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- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 > Juvenile literature.
Cold War > Juvenile literature.
Berlin (Germany) > History > 1945-1990 > Juvenile literature.
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- Instructional and educational works.
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