The Berlin Wall: How It Rose and Why It Fell

By Doris M. Epler

Book Overview

At the outbreak of the war, all six of the wealthy Bell-Irving brothers joined up and were sent overseas. Duncan served with the infantry in the trenches in France, bef?re transferring to the Royal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395635551
• ISBN13: 9780395635551
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: The Millbrook Press
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Berlin Wall: How It Rose and Why It Fell

This is the perfect book to teach middle school students not only about the Berlin Wall, but about the Cold War for which it serves as a metaphor. The author explains the background and concepts connected with the Wall in language adolescents can understand. Her prose flows smoothly and maintains the reader's interest throughout. The black and white photographs bring history to life with, for example, an image of an East German border guard leaping over rolls of barbed wire (which he probably had just helped install) to freedom in the West. This is a very good book.