Secret father

Author / Creator

Carroll, James, 1943-

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Physical

Summary

"It is 1961. Khrushchev is hurling threats, a U.S. spy plane had been shot down over the Soviet Union, tensions are rising. Berlin has been cut off from the West: it's only a matter of weeks until ...

"It is 1961. Khrushchev is hurling threats, a U.S. spy plane had been shot down over the Soviet Union, tensions are rising. Berlin has been cut off from the West: it's only a matter of weeks until the Wall will be erected. The United States and Americans abroad face dangers they have never imagined." "Three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to Berlin to join a May Day rally on the Communist side of the divided city. Propelled by naive ideals and in rebellion against preordained futures, they stumble into the center of an international incident. Paul, the father of one of the boys, and Charlotte, the elegant German-born mother of another, set off to rescue their children from the East German Stasi, which has detained them. Over the course of a weekend, Paul and Charlotte struggle with personal secrets, growing passion, and the weight of a generation that survived World War II only to face the loss of its children to the engulfing paranoia of the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.

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