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Evocative and very enjoyable. Highly recommend it. -- Peter Cossins, author of The Monuments

The story of divided Berlin has been told so often that there seemed little new to say about it. Iain MacGregor's book, with its wealth of eye witness stories, proves how wrong that was--and how understanding the last Cold War is crucial for anyone who wants to understand the new one. -- Martin Sixsmith, ex-BBC News Moscow correspondent Checkpoint Charlie is emblematic of both the tension and romance of the pivot between third World War and peace. Ian MacGregor captures brilliantly and comprehensively both the danger and exhilaration that I and other reporters, soldiers, and people experienced intersecting with the wall, and the fears and the eventual hope that flowed through it. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the Europe we have inherited. -- Jon Snow, Channel 4 News This remarkable book about the Berlin Wall, which has been the subject of everything from diplomatic histories to spy thrillers, is different. Based on extensive, detailed interviews with people on both sides of the wall--soldiers and civilians, Communists and anti-Communists, spies, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens--it offers a riveting panorama of everyday life as it was actually lived at ground zero of the cold war. -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Krushchev: The Man and His Era

This remarkable book about the Berlin Wall, which has been the subject of everything from diplomatic histories to spy thrillers, is different. Based on extensive, detailed interviews with people on both sides of the wall--soldiers and civilians, Communists and anti-Communists, spies, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens--it offers a riveting panorama of everyday life as it was actually lived at ground zero of the cold war. -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author The story of divided Berlin has been told so often that there seemed little new to say about it. Iain MacGregor's book, with its wealth of eye witness stories, proves how wrong that was--and how understanding the last Cold War is crucial for anyone who wants to understand the new one. -- Martin Sixsmith, ex-BBC News Moscow correspondent Checkpoint Charlie is emblematic of both the tension and romance of the pivot between third World War and peace. Ian MacGregor captures brilliantly and comprehensively both the danger and exhilaration that I and other reporters, soldiers, and people experienced intersecting with the wall, and the fears and the eventual hope that flowed through it. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the Europe we have inherited. -- Jon Snow, Channel 4 News

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As an editor and publisher of nonfiction, Iain MacGregor has over twenty-five years' experience of working with authors such as Jonathan Fenby, Simon Schama, and Max Hastings, to name but a very few. He is the author of To Hell on a Bike--Riding Paris-Roubaix, The Toughest Race in Cycling and Checkpoint Charlie. Dugald Bruce-Lockhart trained for a career in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, then worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre among others. Since 1998 he has worked as an actor with Propeller, an all-male theater company, of which he is now an associate director. He is an associate of the Teatre Akadèmia Theatre Company in Barcelona and has directed Romeo and Juliet and As You Like it in Catalan, with new translations by Miqel Desclot. He teaches and directs at drama schools in London including the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, LAMDA and Italia Conti.

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