Freedom Was Never Like That - A Winter's Journey in East Germany by Vat, Dan Van Der - 1991

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1991. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xii + 265 pages. Map endpapers. The Dutch born Times Newspaper correspondent was in Berlin on Unification day in October 1990, and amazed at the vast differences between East and West Germany, he visited the German Democratic Republic for some months. He provides a wide ranging account of the five federal states of the GDR, its economic challenges, its 50% unemployment rate at the time, and through interviews with the people involved with the burgeoning crisis, tells a wholly human story. Laced with his sharp observations of the Germans, their history, customs and language. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.