Pre-Owned Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall (Paperback) by Anna Funder

from anthrofashion

"What a wonderful world" It is very hard to understand how on earth this regime lasted for so m any years. The bosses in Stasi wanted a wonderful world, but no person could argue with them. This book show what happened to those who dared to say something. Funder gives us the picture painted by th...

from john257hopper

The author is an Australian journalist who lived in Berlin and Leipzig in the late 1990s and recorded the stories of East Germans, both the victims of abuses by the dreaded Stasi (Ministry of State Security) and the former perpetrators, most of whom seem quite unrepentant about what they did. The...

from tandah

'Stasiland' creeps up on you - and then it grips and shakes you and changes your view of history, and of the world. I hear given the massive political upheavals across the globe; there is a renewed interest in the fictional '1984'. I would encourage people instead to pick up the factual 'Stasilan...

from SarahEBear

Australian Author, Anna Funder, explores the stories of those who lived in East Berlin (and beyond) under the Communist rule and how the falling of the Berlin Wall impacted on their lives. She offers up a fascinating collection of individual's stories of life, love and persecution by the Stasi, a...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

I was recently in Germany touring around and was struck by the complete lack of any war memorials to dead German soldiers. I am told it is something they would like to forget and I have also been told of German men and boys going to war and not coming back and their families not knowing where or ...