July is certainly the month to party, spend time outdoors with friends, and make the most of the last stretch of summer. Of ...

On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking the end of the Cold War and the unification of East and West Germany. A ...

The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years and was seen as a physical representation of the ongoing power struggle of the Cold War, between the two superpowers of the time: the USA and the Soviet Union.

Late on 9 November, Harris received a call from then-editor of The Independent, Andreas Whittam Smith – the wall was about to come down. At around 10.30pm, Harris caught the first breach of the ...

American histories of the Cold War tend to depict the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the era’s worst depredations. In doing so, however, Americans forget the complexity of the 15-year crisis over the ...

When the wall came down there was a feeling of liberation. But now the barriers are being rebuilt – edifices of fear, both real and imaginary, are being constructed everywhere.

The Berlin Wall itself had been constructed in very much the same fashion as it came down, rapidly and without warning. It was erected almost overnight by the German Democratic Republic (East ...

This duality of the Wall imparted special significance to the choice of Berlin as the venue of the inter-faith peace conference from September 10-12. “In this city history is not silent.

Making fun of the notion that he single-handedly brought down the Berlin Wall, US audiences adopted a stance of mockery that has followed Hasselhoff throughout much of his career.

On June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan visits Berlin and gives a speech in front of 400,000 Berliners at the Brandenburg Gate: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” ...

The former capital of Hitler's Third Reich was divided after World War II. But the people of Berlin were still able to move around freely in the city. That is, until August 13, 1961.

Following on from Deutschland 83 and Deutschland 86, the thriller and espionage elements of those two predecessors have been folded with true aplomb into the real-life events that reached their ...