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Index
Cover
Praise
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by General Brent Scowcroft
Introduction: The World’s Most Dangerous Place
Berlin 1961 Map
PART I. THE PLAYERS
1. Khrushchev: Communist in a Hurry
Marta Hillers’s Story of Rape
2. Khrushchev: The Berlin Crisis Unfolds
3. Kennedy: A President’s Education
The “Sniper” Comes In from the Cold
4. Kennedy: A First Mistake
5. Ulbricht and Adenauer: Unruly Alliances
The Failed Flight of Friedrich Brandt
6. Ulbricht and Adenauer: The Tail Wags the Bear
PART II. THE GATHERING STORM
7. Springtime for Khrushchev
8. Amateur Hour
Jörn Donner Discovers the City
9. Perilous Diplomacy
10. Vienna: Little Boy Blue Meets Al Capone
11. Vienna: The Threat of War
12. Angry Summer
Marlene Schmidt, the Universe’s Most Beautiful Refugee
PART III. THE SHOWDOWN
13. “The Great Testing Place”
Ulbricht and Kurt Wismach Lock Horns
14. The Wall: Setting the Trap
15. The Wall: Desperate Days
Eberhard Bolle Lands in Prison
16. A Hero’s Homecoming
17. Nuclear Poker
18. Showdown at Checkpoint Charlie
Epilogue: Aftershocks
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Titles by Frederick Kempe
Photographic Insert
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