border guard book
Tanya and the border guard book. read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. a russian girl wants a bible more than anything and, stra.... This book covers the history of the border patrol. however, it falls far short of what it ostensibly bills itself and ends up more as a "fluff piece" than anything else. as someone who has not only served as a senior border patrol agent (13 years) but also a border patrol union president and outspoken critic of the agency, i have studied this. The east german regime's distrust of its own citizens extended to its border guards, who were in a better position to defect than almost anyone else in the country. many did in fact flee across the border; between 1961 and 1989, around 7,000 border guards tried to escape. 2,500 succeeded but 5,500 were caught and imprisoned for up to five years.. 
