Title: The Day Before the Berlin Wall
Subtitle: Could We Have Stopped It? -- An Alternate History of Cold War Espionage
Description: The plot is based on a "legend" that was still being told by U.S. Army soldiers in Berlin in the mid-1970s. According to the legend, we had advance knowledge of the wall, and we knew that the East-German troops who were going to build it had been told to halt construction if the Americans were to take aggressive action to stop them.

The novel's webSite has a [page][1] that demonstrates that the "legend" upon which the novel is base is true.


  [1]: http://voicesunderberlin.com/DayBefore/legend.html
Subjects: Berlin Wall, Cold War, espionage, Stasi, Fiction, alternative history, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, war & military, Berlin (germany), fiction
Places: Berlin, Germany
Time periods: August, 1961, the day before construction of the Berlin Wall begins