Peter Millar was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read French and Russian. He subsequently joined Reuters and was posted to Brussels, before beginning a life-long love affair with Berlin as the only non-German western correspondent in East Berlin. In 1985 he joined the Telegraph group and in 1989 the Sunday Times as Central Europe correspondent. He was named Foreign Correspondent of the Year for his coverage of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Peter Millar is also the author of three thrillers in English as well as a travel book, All Gone to Look for America, and the newly released, 1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.