The Year that Changed the World

Informationen zum Autor Michael Meyer is currently Director of Communications for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Between 1988 and 1992,he was Newsweeks Bureau Chief for Germany, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He has worked at the Washington Post and has won a numberof international journalism awards. He is the author of Alexander Compex. He lives in New York. Klappentext Michael Meyer captures those heady days of 1989 in all their rich drama and unpredictability, providing a thrilling chronicle of perhaps the most important year of the 20th century. Zusammenfassung A riveting account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Meyer, Meyer Michael
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9781847394347
• ISBN: 978-1-84739-434-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 199 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Eastern Europe, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989