During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin. It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to a divided Berlin and unleashed an East-West crisis, which lasted until the very people the Wall had been built to imprison breached it on 9 November 1989. Weaving together history, original archive research and personal stories, "The Berlin Wall" is the definitive account of a divided city and its people in a time when humanity seemed to stand permanently on the edge of destruction.

弗雷德里克·泰勒，曾在艾尔斯伯里文法学校受教，在牛津大学研读历史和现代语言学。在苏塞克斯大学攻读硕士学位期间，获得大众奖学金。做过出版商，创作过四部小说，编辑并翻译了《戈培尔日记1939-1941》；畅销书《德累斯顿：1954年2月13日，星期二》的作者。