On 13 August 1961 eighteen million East Germans awoke to find themselves walled in by an edifice which was to become synonymous with the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Patrick Major explores how the border closure affected ordinary East Germans, from workers and farmers to teenagers and even party members, 'caught out' by Sunday the Thirteenth.
| Author | Patrick Major |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Release Date | 2010 |
| ISBN | 019924328X |
| Pages | 336 pages |
| Rating | 4/5 (80 users) |
