- Hardcover: 375 pages
- Publisher: Times Books; 1 edition (Jun 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0812922212
- ISBN-13: 978-0812922219
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 3.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,038,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A true-life spy saga THE NEW YORK TIMES hails as "a fascinating tale, the material of John Le Carre and Len Deighton" and John Le Carre, himself, calls, "a revelation" is now in papareback.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Found some parts of the book to have too many inaccuracies
10 Feb 1998
Format:Paperback
In that I was in West Berlin with the US Army from May 1960 to Sept 1963 and personally involved in the Swap of Abel for Powers and
Pryor - I know what happened - and for the most
part was not as portrayed by Mr. Whitney. The
time of the start of the building of The Wall was
Sunday Night, not Saturday Night as he indicates. Mr. James Donovan's book on the
subject of the swap, Strangers on a Bridge is
a very accurate story about the "swap", the
security for it, etc.
Pryor - I know what happened - and for the most
part was not as portrayed by Mr. Whitney. The
time of the start of the building of The Wall was
Sunday Night, not Saturday Night as he indicates. Mr. James Donovan's book on the
subject of the swap, Strangers on a Bridge is
a very accurate story about the "swap", the
security for it, etc.
A well-written snapshot of a little-known player in eastern German history
9 Sep 2006
Format:Hardcover
Those of us old enough to remember know what it felt like the day the Berlin wall fell: the exhileration, the excitement, and the sense of history in the making that went with that time.
But Germans (and all of the world) came to realize in the days and months after that there was a complexity in the world of eastern German communism, a complexity not easily resolved.
This is a story about part of that complexity, and about Wolfgang Vogel, the east Berlin lawyer who negotiated with east and west to bring thousands of east Germans to freedom, while himself remaining in east Germany. Vogel's life is a snapshot of east German life, and an often riveting account of east German, and the book is especially riveting in telling the story of the last days of communism and the reunification of Germany.
But Germans (and all of the world) came to realize in the days and months after that there was a complexity in the world of eastern German communism, a complexity not easily resolved.
This is a story about part of that complexity, and about Wolfgang Vogel, the east Berlin lawyer who negotiated with east and west to bring thousands of east Germans to freedom, while himself remaining in east Germany. Vogel's life is a snapshot of east German life, and an often riveting account of east German, and the book is especially riveting in telling the story of the last days of communism and the reunification of Germany.
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