Describes the history, culture, people, daily life, and points of interest of Germany's major city.

In the summer of 1961, a wall of barbed wire goes up quickly in the dead of night, officially dividing Berlin. Aware of the many whose families have been divided. Luisa joins a secret spy network, risking her life to help East Germans escape across Berlin Wall and into the West. Bob Inama, a soldier in the US Army, is stationed in West Germany. He's glad to be fluent in German, especially after meeting Luisa Voigt at a church social. As they spend...

A history of the much hated wall that for nearly thirty years divided Berlin and created two separate countries.

In 1961, thirteen-year-old Sabine, an adventurer despite being crippled by polio, finds a forgotten bunker which might allow her, her family, and friends to reach freedom by tunneling under the Berlin Wall, or might lead to far greater danger.

"In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped...

Berlin, 1936: Three women arrive in Nazi Germany from the United States to compete in the Summer Olympics under Adolf Hitler's watchful eye. Each traveled a different road to arrive at this phenomenal moment, overcoming obstacles, opposition, and even a near-fatal accident. Now, they are prepared to show the world what fast girls can do. In 1928, Betty Robinson competes as a member of the first-ever Olympic women's track and field delegation. She...

"Lets readers experience life behind the Berlin wall, choosing different paths to take through history"-- Provided by publisher.

A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice. . . . A nightmare political movement steadily gaining power. . . . This is 1922 Berlin. One of the troubled city's growing number of refugees, Esther Solomonova survives by working...

Discusses the events leading to the building of the twenty-eight mile wall dividing Berlin since 1961 and recounts many of the attempts to cross it.

In 1921, Francoise Frenkel--a Jewish woman from Poland--fulfills a dream. She opens La Maison du Livre, Berlin's first French bookshop, attracting artists and diplomats, celebrities and poets. The shop becomes a haven for intellectual exchange as Nazi ideology begins to poison the culturally rich city. In 1935, the scene continues to darken. First come the new bureaucratic hurdles, followed by frequent police visits and book confiscations. Francoise's...