At home, incipient spring had been in evidence. Late January was mild and in London the trees showed buds. But after he began to travel East, it became colder. By the time the Elbe was crossed, the ground was fast with snow in all directions, and the river moved under grinding floes of ice. As the train stopped, the cook announced with an ironic smile he would grow used to, that Mitroba smile, 'Berlin Haupstadt der DDR. Wilkommen!'.Two decades after the Wall tumbled down, Winter in Berlin evokes everyday life in the shadowy world of the Soviet-controlled German Democratic Republic. Throughout this atmospheric novella 'the scholar' remains anonymous. Who is he and what is his motivation for being in the GDR, a police state where freedom means something different to everyone and trust is the scarcest commodity?Fearing that intimacy may be no more than a trap, he nevertheless slides into a relationship with a young Bulgarian woman. Behind the Wall many eyes are watching, but can he see himself clearly any more? Forced to interrogate the usefulness of his own idealism, the scholar finally comes up against the walls that limit an individual's influence on history.

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Title: Winter in Berlin
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd, GB
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1906817103
ISBN 13: 9781906817107
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 208 grams

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What happens when a secret socialist sympathizer from Scotland travels to East Berlin to study history, meets a beautiful Bulgarian student, begins to covertly operate against the Stalinist GDR regime and is all the while being watched by the Brits and the Germans? Take a trip to 1980s East Germany where Ian Mitchell reinvigorates the historical novel in this thrilling tale of intrigue, espionage and forbidden loves.

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Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for A View from the Ridge, historian Ian R. Mitchell gave up teaching to write full time.

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