The year that changed the world : the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall /
Michael Meyer.
- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- New York : Scribner, 2009.
- xiii, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genesis -- The Wall -- Democracy on the Danube -- A miraculous conversion -- Parallel universes -- The Hungarian connection -- High noon -- Déjeuner sur l'herbe, or Hieronymus Bosch's Hell -- The great escape -- Vortex of change -- A kiss of death -- The fall -- Aftermath -- Denouement.
Communism--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century. Communism--History.--Germany (East) Social movements--History--Europe, Eastern--20th century. Social movements--History.--Germany (East) Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989. World politics--1989-