I saw The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall mentioned somewhere a few days back, and I realized: by God but I am ready to read a book on how the Wall fell. It’s been long enough that you can hope to get a reasonably objective view of what happened, but soon enough that enough of the people involved are likely still alive and able to answer questions. Although I suspect that many of them don’t know the answer, either.
Anyway, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Moe Lane
PS: I actually wrote up something about this for In Nomine, once (hermann-google-docs). I changed around a bit or two, but it held up surprisingly well. Of course, I’m obviously biased about my own work. Continue reading In the Mail: The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall.