20 Years After the Berlin Wall: Roaming Ghostland Recounts the Final Days of East Germany
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-(Business Wire)-September 16, 2009 - Twenty years after the Berlin Wall became the symbolic crowning blow to Communism, a new book – Roaming Ghostland: The Final Days of East Germany – offers a fresh eyewitness account of an entire nation as it was disappearing from the map.
Roaming Ghostland (Xlibris, 2009) weaves together a street-level account of history with the personal story of a young American foreign correspondent struggling to cover one of the 20th Century’s most significant events: the reunification of Germany.
“The book is really a passport back in time to a nation that no longer exists,” says author Stevan Allen. “Roaming Ghostland tells a largely untold story about this mesmerizing, yet overlooked period of history between the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification.”
While much of the European press corps focused on daily news coverage from Bonn, Berlin and the rest of Europe, the author, a former journalist with the Washington Post and St. Petersburg Times, was free to pursue flesh-and-blood tales about the uncertainty, chaos and hope swirling around ordinary East Germans.
The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers: armchair historians, travelers, journalists, German students and anyone interested in understanding this tumultuous and exhilarating moment in modern European history, as well as the tenuous existence of a foreign correspondent in pre-Internet 1990.
The book can be purchased from a number of online bookstores, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Xlibris. For more information: www.RoamingGhostland.com
About the Author: Stevan Allen was born in 1960 in Minnesota, raised in California and educated at the University of California, Davis, where he majored in German and International Relations. He is a former journalist with the St. Petersburg Times and Washington Post. He was one of the first Western reporters to obtain an unrestricted visa to travel freely throughout East Germany. His freelance dispatches from East Germany appeared in major newspapers throughout the United States and earned him a nomination as a 1990 Livingston Award finalist for foreign reporting.
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