Spy Trader:: Germany's Devil's Advocate and the Darkest Secrets of the Cold War

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.