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Imprint: Arcadia
Format: C Format
ISBN: 9781906413439
Price: £ £11.99
Pages: 300 pp
Date: February 2009
An engrossing, engaging read - The Glasgow Herald
He captures the excitement and sense of unpredictability - AthensPlus
Now a new generation will understand the reason why he continues to kick the hell out of the henious barrier - Sunday Times
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1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall
Peter Millar (About this author)
It was an event that changed history, bringing the Cold War to a sudden, unexpected end. Peter Millar was in the middle of it, literally: caught in Checkpoint Charlie between bemused East German border guards and drunk western revellers prematurely celebrating the end of an era.
For over a decade Millar had been living not just in East Berlin but also Warsaw and Moscow. In this engaging, garrulous, bibulous memoir we follow him on a journey into the heart of Cold War Europe. From the hitchhiking trip that helped him discover a secret path into a career in journalism, through the carousing bars of Fleet Street in the seventies, to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of customers who taught him the truth about living on the wrong side of the Wall. We relive the night it all disintegrated, gain insight into the domino effect that swept through Eastern Europe in its aftermath and find out how the author felt as he opened the Stasi files and discovered which of his friends had - or had not - been spying on him.
More Books by this Author:
All Gone to Look for America
Slow Train to Guantanamo
The Black Madonna
The Shameful Suicide of Winston Churchill
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