Frederick Taylor The Berlin Wall Summary

Frederick Taylor author of The Berlin Wall: A World Divided 1961-1989 written in 2007, brings to the front an almost forgotten event in history. He writes an in depth novel of what precipitated the events before the wall was built, and after it was torn down. Taylor gives a thorough account of the happenings, and with the use of evidence, personal account, interviews, and opinion he gives a delightful and at time somewhat controversial account of the Berlin Wall. The author gives account of the role that the nation 's played in the wall 's construction and continuance. He also discusses the role of the Soviet Union and the United States. The author takes on a controversial outlook as to say that because Germany would not have been easily put back together and thrive, the West did not do …show more content…
Although we have not covered the Berlin Wall in our class I know that from looking through the textbook about the subject that we will be soon. The book expands upon the information that is in the textbook and gives a more in depth look into all of the nations involved. The entire book was extremely long and took a lot of concentration to read and understand. There is so much information included in the book so there weren 't any illustrations. I would recommend this book to someone who has an interest in the Berlin Wall. I would also recommend this book to someone who enjoys investigative journalism because this is an extremely well-written book by someone who spent a lot time on his research. Although I would recommend the book, I had a hard time getting through the entire book because of its length. The length made writing this book review hard because I wanted to add some information from the book as well, but the book is so long that you can only discuss a few chapters. By the middle of the book I was honestly hoping that the book would be over soon because it does go into so much detail that it can be boring at