How Eastern Europe toppled communism and won its freedom, reported and analyzed by the London Observer 's chief correspondent. A superlative exposition, thorough and honest. Kirkus Reviews. Exemplary...both as journalism and contemporary history. Times Literary Supplement.
Twice winner of the British Press Awards prize for foreign reporting, Mark Frankland has written for the London Observer since 1962. His other books include Khrushchev: A Political Biography and The Sixth Continent: Russia and Gorbachev.