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 ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, no one believed it would ultimately lead to its fall.

The half-naked protester was filmed defacing remnants of the Berlin Wall kept outside the German embassy in Ukraine capital Kyiv on Sunday with a Hitler mustache and swept-over cropped dark hair ...

When Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

The building of the Berlin Wall The response of the West The impact ... just thirteen days before the USA and the USSR were preparing to sit down for a summit meeting in Paris, an American U2 ...