In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

When word of crowds gathering at the Berlin Wall reached Europe correspondent Ian Henderson on a cold November day in 1989, no one believed it would ultimately lead to its fall.

When Bowie arrived in early '76, just over 13 years before the Berlin Wall came down, escaping East Germans were still being shot on the "death strip" in the heart of the city. John Le Carre's ...

In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. It was an astonishing development, which caught world politicians entirely by surprise. The division between East and West, though constantly condemned ...

In 1961, the city was split into two by the Berlin Wall. Two new Germanys were created ... So that the public can peer down through the glass onto the politicians debating below.

In 1989, after almost 30 years of division, the Berlin Wall came down paving the way for German re-unification. On November the 9th the East German government announced its citizens could visit ...

In honour of the 30th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, the typeface pays tribute to the artwork that was created during its existence Creative agency Heimat Berlin has released a new ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...

Stephan Stiess from Newcastle in Australia was 19 years old when the Berlin wall came crashing down. The next day, he joined the enormous queue of East-Germans wanting to explore the other side of ...