Books by Michael Meyer
language
English
review 1: I was planning to read Rob Gifford's 'China Road' and this book in May, before leaving for my month-long trip to China. Realizing I just didn't have the time to read both, I stopped reading 'China Road' and switched to reading this since Beijing was one of the places I planned t...
language
English
review 1: Concise, personal description of the events in the soviet bloc of eastern Europe in 1989, from Jaruzelski in Poland un-banning Solidarity, to the Velvet Revolution in Prague, to the kangaroo-court murder of the Ceausescu's in Romania. Some repetition, clumsy foreshadowing, and wr...