View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

In this excerpt from The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, Frederick Taylor, a German historian, describes the moments leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall by weaving together history ...

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