The 9th Worst Car of All Time!
The Puzzle People and the Trouble with Trabis
The votes are in, and East Germany's Trabant has been named the 9th worst car of all time, according to Edmunds.com. Much of my new novel, The...
‘The Puzzle People’ is Out on eBooks–But Who Are the Puzzle People?
Solving a 600-Million-Piece Puzzle
My new novel, The Puzzle People, hasn't quite hit the shelves yet. But it has hit the webosphere and is now available for download on Kindle, Nook, IBook, and other electronic...
How Do You Say ‘Oops’ in German?
A Bureaucrat's Mistake Led to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
In a country loaded with bureaucrats, it seems oddly fitting that a bureaucratic blunder would lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
To set...
All Along the Watchtower
Berlin Trip Takes Me to the Site of the First Shooting Along the Wall
Talk about timing.
I spent the last two weeks in Austria and Berlin, in part to do research for my new novel...
1989: The Year That Changed the World
Big Brother Takes a Big Hit in 1989
George Orwell didn't quite get it right. His landmark novel, 1984, describes the 1980s as a time in which Big Brother is all-seeing and all-controlling. Little did...
The Church From Below
How the Church Helped Bring Down the Berlin Wall
With the last name of "Fuhrer," he made an unlikely German hero.
His full name was Christian Fuhrer, and this pastor led a movement that helped to...
The Blood Cries Out
Teenager's Death on the Wall is Still Remembered Almost 50 Years Later
Two teenage boys made a mad dash out of a deserted building, and the guards opened fire with automatic weapons from about fifty...
