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Author
Series
Robert Harland novels volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
437 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in East Germany during the bleak, waning days of 1989, this stand-alone thriller from British author Porter (A Spy's Life) combines impeccable research with compelling characters caught up in the broad sweep of fascinating historical events. The Stasi want art scholar Dr. Rudi Rosenharte to take part in a dangerous mission involving a former lover Rudi knows is dead, but who the Stasi thinks is not only alive but also harboring vital state secrets....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Description
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.
3) Berliners
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 431 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1961 Berlin, twins Rudi, a photographer, and Peter, an actor, live in different sectors of a divided Berlin after the sudden divorce of their parents, where they are forced to choose between playing by the rules and taking their dreams underground.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a loose set of cabaret pieces, Steffen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and clowns satirize East German life in its final days and the arrival of new times after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Da-Da-R is a wordplay on the irreverent Dada art movement of the 1920s and the German acronym for East Germany -- the DDR. The clowns are allowed to leave prison to sing for people outside. As they perform their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Queen of England calls on her trusty spy, Mac B., once again. This time, Mac must navigate secret tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall in order to retrieve cheat codes from a Soviet scientist. Floppy disk in hand, our hero finds himself trapped in East Germany, stuck between the wall and the Stasi. How will he escape? Well it is 1989, and walls do fall down"--
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min., 15 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
"The Berlin Wall" - - Director Paul Cotter (15 min.) [Germany] : "Upon losing his wife, 75-year-old Werner ventures out to the back of his house and begins to rebuild the Berlin Wall, stirring fervent reactions from the neighboring suburbanites, refugees, children and police." -- pkg. back cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"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...
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