On October 27, 1961, combat-ready American and Soviet tanks faced off in Berlin at the U.S. Army\'s Checkpoint Charlie. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over access to the ...

To a lot of North Americans, memories of the Berlin Wall—if they surface at all—serve as a hazy reminder of a bygone era. Fifty years ago this week, however, things were a lot different. The Cold War ...

The winds of cold-war crisis for 1961 were converging on Berlin. Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev had made it plain that he intends to provoke that crisis. In his Vienna confrontation with Khrushchev, ...

This monthly Harlequin paperback offering will be off the shelf in a couple of weeks. Chances are no one will really miss it when it’s gone. Those who have read others in the Donovan family series may ...

The Berlin Wall has now been dismantled for as long as it stood - 28 years, two months and 26 days, or 10,316 days in total. From 1961 to 1989, the city of Berlin was divided by the most visible sign ...

Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin’s 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete. It came down 22 ...

In 1961, a crisis brewed over the future of Berlin, which was marooned in the middle of Soviet-aligned East Germany and divided between Eastern and Western interests. To stem migration from east to ...

Coming 50 years after 1961, with Berlin now the capital of a unified German state, Kempe’s compelling, lively (and unusually well-illustrated) account is a reminder that the city was once at the heart ...

The book is divided into 3 parts: Part II: "The Gathering Storm" - After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy's political clout and respect among world leaders is at a low point, to say the least.

The sun was high and the air was warm and moist at 8:30 a.m. when I got out of the 1950s black Mercedes diesel cab I had taken to Berlin”s monumental Brandenburg Gate. The day was Aug. 13, 1961, a ...

On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up to find their city divided by a wall. On August 13, 1961, Berliners woke up on a Sunday morning to find their city divided by a wall. That day became known as ...

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