The fall of the Berlin wall

The end of the Cold War and the rise of a new world

On November 9, 1989, one of the most important historical events in contemporary history occurred in Berlin, the fall of the Wall. Since 1961, it had divided the German capital into two parts and, symbolically, the world. A direct consequence of the Second World War and the division of the two resulting hegemonic blocs, led by the United States and the Soviet Union, Berlin became the symbol of a fractured Europe and an exponent of the latent wounds of one of the most violent periods. and uncertainties of recent history.

Ricardo Martín de la Guardia, with great skill and capacity for analysis, traces us in "The fall of the Berlin wall" a masterful tour of these definitive events that inexorably marked the destiny of Germany, Europe and, ultimately, the entire world, and looks at the present from the political, historical and cultural legacy that the "revolution" of 1989 has left. A fundamental work to understand the XNUMXth century and essential to understand the present.

A book that has the virtue of leaving nothing out. Throughout its more than 300 pages, it introduces us not only to the deep causes that led to the fall of the Wall, but also to the immediately preceding political changes, the fights in the offices between the main protagonists, the desire for freedom of a people who , just a few meters away, he saw with anguish the level of development of Western societies and, of course, the doubts and fears of the nomenclature Soviet.

"The fall of the Berlin wall" It is a well-written, precise, pleasant to read book that, without forgetting the human component, never loses sight of the fact that its fundamental objective is to enlighten us about a key process, without which we could not understand our present. It is, without a doubt, a great work to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a unique moment in European and world history that served as a prelude to the subsequent Soviet collapse.

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