Freedom was Never Like This

Dan Van Der Vat

Published 1991

The author had been in Berlin on Unification Day in October 1990.  So struck by the contrasts of the two Germanys that in the months that followed he travelled around the former German Democratic Republic, experiencing for the first time a country that had denied him more than minimal access during the six years as The Times correspondent in Bonn.

Published in 1991, this is a raw and frank assessment of the unification without the benefit of the hindsight we have today.  A time when the euphoria of the opening of the Berlin Wall faded swiftly, as Germans became exposed - without safeguards - to the overwhelming power of Europe's dominant economy

A fascinating account of the times.