title: The Berlin Wall (New Perspectives)
author:  R. G. Grant 
description: Gr. 7^-12. In the New Perspective series. which also includes Charles Freeman's <i>Crisis in Rwanda</i> , this detailed account of the building, guarding, and eventual coming down of the Berlin Wall is also a history of the Cold War in Europe and an overview of the collapse of Communism. The book design is like a magazine, with many photographs, quotes, and boxed insets, and the bibliography recommends the great spy novels of the 1960s as well as information sources. <i>Hazel Rochman</i>
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  _Dedicated to my mother Margaret McDonald_  
   _and a life spent building bridges_
  
  CONTENTS
  
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  > Introduction
  
  > 1 China
  
  > 2 USA
  
  > 3 Israel and Palestine
  
  > 4 The Middle East
  
  > 5 The Indian Subcontinent
  
  > 6 Africa
  
  > 7 Europe
  
  > 8 UK
  
  > Conclusion
  
  > Bibliography
  
  > Acknowledgements
  
  > Index
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
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  THE BORDER WALL BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE WEST BANK IS among the most forbidding
  and hostile in the world. Viewed from up close, whichever side you find
  yourself on, it rears up from the ground, overwhelming and dominating you.
  Faced by this blank expanse of steel and concrete, you are dwarfed not only by
  its size but by what it represents. You are on one side; ‘they’ are on the
  other.
  
  Thirty years ago a wall came down, ushering in what looked like a new era of
  openness and internationalism. In 1987 President Ronald Reagan went to the
  Brandenburg Gate in divided Berlin and called out to his opposite number in
  the