Books by Don Oberdorfer
The Turn
by Don Oberdorfer
If you ask me for just one book to give you the narrative of events, I would recommend this one. It has an immediacy that comes from someone who observed a lot of it; Oberdorfer was a Washington Post reporter at the time. He is particularly good on international relations, which I think is a key part of the story of 1989 and 1990.
Interviews where books by Don Oberdorfer were recommended
The best books on 1989, recommended by Mary Elise Sarotte
Mary Elise Sarotte, holder of the Kravis Chair in Historical Studies at Johns Hopkins, discusses five books on the end of the Cold War and East Germany’s attempts to grapple with its new future post-reunification
