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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
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"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, 1963. An early-morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, nor at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging M16 operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist who once made headlines,...
Author
Publisher
Rowohlt
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1. Aufl.
Physical Desc
425 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Dreams and aspirations of a family in East Germany fade from an idealistic desire to build a workers' paradise, post World War II ; as the decades and generations pass, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany approaches.
5) The arsonist
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
493 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 784 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping and nuanced history of the German people from the Second World War to the present day, including hugely revealing new primary source material on every aspect of its transformation"--
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