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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The book is a pictorial historiography of the British occupation of Berlin from 1945-1994 with insights and detailed information on the military and political status of the city. With previously unpublished documents and photographs it reveals every facet of British life at the Wall from the garrisons daily routine the surveillance activities of the Military Mission (BRIXMIS) behind the Iron Curtain the YAK 28 coup and the SIS/CIA spy tunnel operation exposed by KGBs top spy George Blake. Additionally it discloses the British defence strategy (FIBUA) for its sector revealing new and unpublished insights. Berlin as a city deep inside the Soviet Zone enclosed by the notorious Berlin Wall from 1961 was the stage of Cold War operations spy tunnels and high security radar stations penetrating the Warsaw Pact. It discloses the British Garrisons contradictory engagement between post-war obligations in cooperating with the Soviets Berlin Air Safety Centre and Spandau Allied Prison at the same time preparing for war. (LL)