In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

When Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. It was an astonishing development, which caught world politicians entirely by surprise. The division between East and West, though constantly condemned ...

Sitting on the Berlin Wall would have been unheard of ... Henderson recalled how unexpected the night the wall came down was. "It wasn't meant to happen, of course," Henderson said.

Ukrainian towns and cities divided by a demarcation line in the event of a ceasefire would be left empty and desolate, ...

If you wanted confirmation that the world can change dramatically you need only remember the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989 ...

Later, other symbolic walls came down, and the Germans, of course, tore down the literal wall in Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the Gdansk ...

In honour of the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, the typeface pays tribute to the artwork that was created during its existence Creative agency Heimat Berlin has released a new ...

East Side Gallery3-kilometer section of the Berlin Wall. Following the Wall's fall in 1989, artists from around the world ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American U2 ...