Registriert anlässlich des 60. Jahrestages des Endes des Zweiten Weltkrieges und der Einweihung des Holocaust-Denkmals in Berlin.

Picked up at bookcrossing in Berlin last night. And very much looking forward to reading it.

Hmmm - I on the whole rather enjoyed this and was at first going to pass it on to various English-speaking colleagues for some insight into post-Wall Germany, but the more I read, the more I found that some of the facts needed to be taken with large pinches of salt - such as the "fact" that you need a special authorisation for an answering machine in Germany (something I never experienced and that no-one I asked has heard of). Nor am I entirely convinced by Marc Fisher's English rendering of some German expressions.
Despite my quibbles with some of the basis for his musings on Germany, I did find it interesting and, while I would always rather read Timothy Garton Ash for solid facts and an ability to conveny the nuances of German polit-speak to an English-speaking audience, this is worth reading provided one has one's pinches of salt to hand!
To be released at next meetup in Berlin

RELEASE NOTES:

Taking book to Meetup, will be on bookcrossing shelf in back room if not claimed.

Buch geht mit zum Meetup. Danach am Bookcrossing Regal im hinteren Zimmer wenn niemand es mitnimmt

ecossaise told me to pick this up at the meetup - so of course I complied. ;)