In Berlin in 1989, the Cold War seems to be coming to an end but thirteen-year-old Liesl still feels trapped behind a wall as she tries to uncover a secret about her American grandfather, aided by a boy whose father is in the United States Air Force.
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 1948 Berlin, Germany, while trying to survive the Russian blockade of the city and also grieving for his father and sister who were killed in the war, thirteen-year-old Erich is befriended by a United States airman.
A photo-illustrated chronicle of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which covers the events and ideologies that led to its construction; the factors that brought change in the 1980s; the time line of the night it was torn down, November 9, 1989; and the impact of the city's opening on eastern and western Berliners and world politics.
the heroism and triumph of the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949
Reeves, Richard
2010
Drawing on service records and hundreds of interviews in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain, shares the stories of the World War II airmen who were once again called to active duty three years after the war ended to try and save the people of the western sectors of Berlin after Joseph Stalin had set up a blockade of the city hoping to force out the American, British, and French occupation troops. Includes black-and-white photographs.
Describes how Berlin's Jewish Hospital survived as an institution where Jewish doctors and nurses cared for Jewish patients throughout World War II without being taken over by the Nazis.
