The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
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Matthew Longo
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The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

Matthew Longo

256 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative medium-paced
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A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists did the unthinkable- they entered the forbidd...

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