#  Sarotte's book named one of the best books of 2014 | Financial Times, The Economist 

 





December 11, 2014

 

 

*We reported earlier this month that Mary Elise Sarotte's book was named one of the best of the year by the Financial Times. Now, The Economist, has named her book as well.*

*From "The Economist"*

*The best books of 2014 were about the South China Sea, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Kaiser Wilhelm II, the publishing of “Ulysses” and capitalism in the 21st century  
  
**The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall.** *By Mary Elise Sarotte. Basic Books; 291 pages; $27.99 and £18.99.* A blow-by-blow account of the birth of modern Germany on November 9th 1989, when, at an otherwise dull press conference in East Berlin, a government spokesman said that a new law permitting East Germans more freedom to travel would go into effect immediately. It changed Europe for ever.*

*See [The Economist Website](http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21635446-best-books-2014-were-about-south-china-sea-fall-berlin-wall-kaiser)*

*From "Financial Times":*

*"The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall* , by **Mary Elise Sarotte**, Basic Books, RRP£18.99/$27.99  
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the defining event of the revolutionary year of 1989. Sarotte provides an authoritative and fast-moving  
account of the events that led up to the collapse of East Germany."

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