The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Turning Points, 20)
"Buckley's lucid account celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit and the will to achieve freedom." —Publishers Weekly
"This is a small masterpiece of the narrative tradition. The Fall of the Berlin Wall keep[s] readers turning the page." —National Review
"[A] great narrative of democratic survival and democratic victory." —The Washington Times
The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the turning point in the struggle against Communism in Eastern Europe. In The Fall of the Berlin Wall, renowned author and conservative pioneer William F. Buckley Jr. explains why the wall was built, reveals its devastating impact on the lives of people on both sides, and provides a riveting account of the events that led to the wall's destruction and the end of the Cold War.
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Book details
- Author
- William Buckley
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 240
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Turning Points in History
- Subjects
- History › Europe › Germany
- Topics
- Cold War · fall of communism · East Germany · Iron Curtain · Soviet Union · European history · capitalism vs socialism
- ISBN-13
- 9780470496688
About the author
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. founded the conservative journal National Review in 1955 and hosted the Emmy Award–winning television program Firing Line from 1966 to 1999. His books include The Fall of the Berlin Wall, God and Man at Yale and the Blackford Oakes spy novel series.
Buckley received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 and was awarded thirty-five honorary degrees. He graduated with honors from Yale University.
Buckley served in the CIA in the early 1950s, helped found the Young Americans for Freedom in 1960, and began his nationally syndicated newspaper column "On the Right" in 1962.