“Almost sixty years ago, just after midnight, a few feet from the river where they danced, a wonder of modern engineering occurred: overnight, the Berlin Wall arose. It was the night of August 15, 1961. Berliners awoke on the sixteenth to this marvel, more of a fence at first, concrete posts driven into the streets and festooned with barbed wire. The knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden. And who know which side you will find yourself on?” (pg 124).

It isn’t often I am so deeply disappointed in a book. Largely because it is so very rare that I get so excited for a book. Yet, this book captured both: my anticipation and my deep disappointment.

Grade: C-

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