| Beyond the Wall: Adventures of a Volkswagen Beetle on the Other Side of the Iron Curtain Contributor(s): Carnovale, Marco (Author) |
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ISBN: 1790694892 ISBN-13: 9781790694891 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Food, Lodging & Transportation - Road Travel |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 220 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 1980: the Cold War between capitalist West and socialist East is in full swing. Tensions are high but, at the academic level, some channels of useful exchange remain open. The author and two classmates would join one such program linking a leading American university and its counterpart in Poland. They travel to Warsaw here by car and, in addition to attending classes, roam far and wide within the country as well as to several of the neighbors in the socialist bloc where the Soviet Union called all the shots. They drive across the USSR and visit the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the division of Europe. Throughout, Marco took detailed notes of what they saw and heard.Almost four decades later, the East-West division of Europe is gone. Marco recently found his diary and decided to publish an expanded version of it.His written notes from 1980 have been enriched with descriptions and analyses of historical events that will help the reader see his personal experience in a more significant cultural, social, political and economic context. The author hopes this real life story will help younger generations, who did not live through the Cold War, better appreciate the blessing of living in a European continent that is immensely more open, rich and free than it was then. |