Pertti Ahonen is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Edinburgh. A native of Finland, he compelted his Ph.D. in Modern European History at Yale University in 1999, and taught at the University of Sheffield before moving to Edinburgh in 2005. He is the author of After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe, 1945-1990 (OUP, 2003) and a co-author of People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath (Berg, 2008).

... excellent, finely written book.

• Introduction ; 1. The Wall Goes Up ; 2. The East-West Clash at Its Peak ; 3. Hero-Victims of the Socialist Frontier ; 4. Escape Tunnels, Death, and the Commemoration of the GDR's Hero-Victims ; 5. The Wall and the Rise of Detente ; 6. The Wall and Its Victims in the 1970s ; 7. The Wall Comes Tumbling Down ; 8. After the Wall

Pertti Ahonen is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Edinburgh. A native of Finland, he compelted his Ph.D. in Modern European History at Yale University in 1999, and taught at the University of Sheffield before moving to Edinburgh in 2005. He is the author of After the Expulsion: West Germany and Eastern Europe, 1945-1990 (OUP, 2003) and a co-author of People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and Its Aftermath (Berg, 2008).

... excellent, finely written book.

• Introduction ; 1. The Wall Goes Up ; 2. The East-West Clash at Its Peak ; 3. Hero-Victims of the Socialist Frontier ; 4. Escape Tunnels, Death, and the Commemoration of the GDR's Hero-Victims ; 5. The Wall and the Rise of Detente ; 6. The Wall and Its Victims in the 1970s ; 7. The Wall Comes Tumbling Down ; 8. After the Wall