Berlin is one of the largest cities in ... the Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg boroughs offer many more iconic sites of World War II and the Cold War. In Kreuzberg, you'll find Checkpoint Charlie ...

This book explains how and why Berlin became the symbolic capital of the Cold War. Paul Steege anchors his account of this emerging global conflict in the terrain of a city literally shattered by ...

Ever since the Yalta Conference, it had been clear that Berlin was going to be a flash point in the Cold War ... down the planes could have provoked World War Three, and at this stage, unlike ...