1989 the Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall | 
My reading buddy for the evening. #WicketsWorld #DogsOfLitsy
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My reading buddy for the evening. #WicketsWorld #DogsOfLitsy
This is definitely not a book I expected to start 2019 by reading (I did not even know it existed until a couple of hours ago), but it‘s good research for the manuscript I want to officially start and finish this year. #ColdWar #EastBerlin #PeterMillar
so-soThe narrative voice is steeped in that slappable puffery to which the hyperprivileged Oxbridge grad is so often prone, with a heaping helping of the 70s self-styled pseudo-badass to boot.
However, the chapters including his eyewitness account of the fall of the DDR were worth the copious eyeroll of all that proceeded them. Put on your hipwaders and persevere.
(Unrelated image from an article on punk in the DDR.)
DDR joke: why is Socialist hell better than Capitalist hell? They keep running out of boiling oil and hot coals.
Image is of East German transient punk kids.
Reminder of how Erich Honaker never took questions from journalists and segregated foreign press from DDR reporters.
I find the "gonzo-douchebag" tone of the narration eye-rolling but I'm all in for the information imparted.
