Kind of amazing coincidence today: Frederick Taylor, the eminent UK
historian, who wrote the definitive
The Berlin Wall, had just provided a
terrific blurb for my upcoming
The Tunnels book ("priceless as history and
just about impossible to beat for sheer narrative grip"). Of course, I found this enormously gratifying, given my own Wall subject--and I am now following him on Twitter, the modern homage. This morning he happened to post
the very cool photo at left by a well-known photog, Roger Melis.
It is
captioned, "Berlin 1976, Almstadtstrasse." That's a very short street in the old East Berlin --
where my daughter, husband and grandson currently live! I've been at
this spot several times now. Their apartment building is just down the
block on the left....
My book, in many ways, was born on this block--when
my daughter moved there three years ago....
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