Bloc Life
Stories from the Lost World of Communism
$36.50
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
6 June 2019
Summary
For the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, riveting stories of daily life behind the Iron Curtain.
There was life before the fall.
1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life collects first-hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846076176 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184607617X |
| Author: | Peter Molloy |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | BBC Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 233g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 127mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
The stories are by turns harrowing, miraculous and utterly compelling * The Sunday Times *
This is a powerful and moving book evoking a way of life that seems long gone and far away, but was endured by millions of people less than 20 years ago, and just a few hundred miles away * The Mail on Sunday *
Peter Molloy
Peter Molloy is a multi-award winning producer of history and current affairs series for the BBC. He is the producer of The Lost World of Communism, on which this book is based, and his other credits include CIA, a history of America’s intelligence agency, Plague Wars, about chemical and biological warfare, Dirty Money, about international financial crime, Tobacco Wars with Michael Buerk, Suez, and Clear the Skies, about 9⁄11.
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