Wall: The Inside Story of Divided Berlin

This scholarly work, carefully footnoted and annotated, is a must for Berlin Wall mavens and all historians. I can't emphasize enough the irony of the timing of the publishing of this book...literally weeks before the Wall fell. Mr. Wyden apparently decided not to publish a second edition with an epilogue as the whole world found out on Nov 9-10,1989.This book is a definite must-read. No one could have predicted the fall--Mr. Wyden simply said that it would eventually happen.

I read this book early in 1990. I recall it as a "can't put down book". But, I had experienced the WALL in July,1989, also visited East Berlin. I was in the Army NG in 1961 when the wall went up and worried about being federalized and all of us fighting yet, again, another War in Europe. We all know the outcome, but after visiting both Berlin's I finally understood what it meant to be FREE. Again from memory, Peter Wyden wrote the book before the wall came down, in it he stated that Wall would stand for a long time. Don't hire Peter Wyden as a prophet or seer. However, you should read the book.