The wall was topped with barbed wire to prevent East Berliners from escaping While most of the Berlin Wall anniversary coverage has focused on the day the wall came down, the seeds of revolution ...

It culminated in one of the most famous scenes in recent history - the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall came down partly because of a bureaucratic accident but it fell amid a wave of revolutions ...

In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

The call came at 11:30 to my home ... “Mr. Gorbachev,” Reagan declared, “tear down this wall!” Two years later, Gorbachev’s actions in Moscow and in Berlin helped the people in ...

In honour of the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, the typeface pays tribute to the artwork ... “We did an incredible amount of research and took hundreds of photos from real pieces of ...