berlin (germany)

When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom.

Provides information on the German city of Berlin, covering its history, government, geography, and the lifestyles of its people. Includes color photographs, a time line, and a glossary.

A graphic novel chronicling the lives of the author and illustrator's parents in East Germany, before the Berlin Wall fell, while the Socialist Unity Party of Germany was in power. Explores the hardships of life under communism and why the author's parents tried to leave and get into West Germany.

"Follows a small boy and his family as they try to reunite with his father after the Berlin Wall is built"--OCLC.

Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled his native Berlin, Germany, before World War II, but when McCarthyism threatens his new life in America in 1948, Alex makes a desperate bargain with the CIA: he will go back to Berlin and act as their agent in the political hotspot as a way of earning his way back to his new home and family. But almost immediately, things start to go wrong, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Even worse, he discovers that his real mission is to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever really loved.

"... historian Mary Elise Sarotte shows that the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, was not, as is commonly believed, the East German government's deliberate concession to outside influence ... Drawing on evidence from archives in multiple countries and languages, along with dozens of interviews with key actors, 'The Collapse' is [an] ... account of the event that brought down the East German Politburo and came to represent the final collapse of the Cold War order"--Provided by publisher.

One night in 1960, teen actress Pagan Jones gets behind the wheel drunk and drives her car off a cliff, killing her father and sister. Now at a reformatory for girls, Pagan receives a suspicious offer to do a comedy directed in West Berlin. Accompanied by a mysterious guardian, Pagan heads to Berlin and finds herself in over her head in espionage.

Henry Oertelt chronicles the experiences he had while being held in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Tells the story of the World War II pilots, navigators, and mechanics who were recalled to duty in 1948 when Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin blockaded Berlin, hoping to drive out small detachments of American, British, and French occupation troops.