Tag: cold war

Ich war dabei: At Checkpoint Charlie as the Berlin Wall fell

The Wall, East Germany, “Democracy”: 30 years on, Mike pays a return visit to the spot on which he stood in November 1989. The weekend the Wall fell.

Bunker Mentality: The PM, four pennies and a red telephone box

Britain's war planning in 1962 involved four pennies, a red telephone box and the Automobile Association, according to a new book by Peter Hennessy.