The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
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This edition of The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 2007 • Farrar Straus & Giroux • 56 pages.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780374347017
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