by Dennis M. Keating (Author)
A Cold War story. The Fulda Gap was ground zero of the Cold War. For fifty years, American G.I.'s stood down Soviet tanks. The soviet tanks had rolled over Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Now their gun turrets were aligned at the Fulda Gap and ready to attack West Germany. Unfortunately for the Russkies, the Fulda Gap was being guarded by the US Army 3rd Armored Division and the Third Herd was there to make sure that planned attack would never happen. Finally, one hundred miles to the East the Berlin Wall cracked open and the world changed. This is the story of the Cold War; a time in history every American should know.
Author Biography
The author arrived in Germany in 1985 at the height of the Cold War. During those critical years, his assignments often brought him to the Fulda Gap and other sensitive places along the East West border. Also, for various reasons at different times, he traveled into East Berlin and other East Germany locations. He also spent time in Moscow and Leningrad and was an eye witness to many facets of the Cold War. He personally witnessed the food shortages and black market activities in those Russian cities. When the Berlin Wall began to crack, he made a couple trips to Berlin to physically participate in the Wall's destruction. There, with sledge hammer in hand, he did his part in destroying the Wall and rejoiced as it came tumbling down. When he finally departed from the reunified Germany 20 years later, it was a totally different place and he knew he had had a ringside seat in history.