Twenty years after the Berlin Wall fell, Newsweek's former bureau chief provides a riveting eyewitness account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. This audiobook rewrites our conventional understanding of how the Cold Warcame to an end (Reagan's stirring words to Mr. Gorbachev were only part of it) and holds important lessons for America's current geopolitical challenges. "Sala narrates with a slightly gruff tone that's just what one would imagine of a foreign correspondent."—AudioFile