Review
From the book jacket: September 1989. The
Communist government in East Germany is on the
brink, desperately clinging to power through the
iron grip of the Stasi. One of the most
formidable intelligence services the world has
ever seen, the Stasi has one informer for every
seven residents of East Germany, plus countless
armed guards, special jails, and nightmarish
interrogation centers. But even the Stasi can’t
stop the rebellion that ends in the fall of the
Berlin Wall. It is in these last few frenzied
weeks that
Brandenburg Gate is set.
Dr. Rudi Rosenharte, formerly a Stasi foreign
agent, now an art scholar living in Dresden, is
sent to Trieste to rendezvous with his old
lover, Annalise Schering. The...
Beyond the Book
As
The Berlin Wall fell
my husband and I
procrastinated. We sat
in our small London
house saying to
ourselves that we really
should go and see it,
but we'd just got back
from our honeymoon, and
there were things to do,
thank you cards to
write, jobs that we
shouldn't really take
any more time off from -
and as a result we
frittered away the
opportunity to see
first-hand one of the
most momentous events of
the 20th century.
Fortunately, there are...
