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Marcus Ferrar

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Marcus Ferrar was a journalist with Reuters for 18 years. In 1971/72 during the Cold War he was the only western correspondent in East Berlin. He subsequently lived in Prague and over three years covered all of Eastern Europe. He then reported the Portuguese revolution and served in the management of Reuters.

Now a writer and an award-winning communication consultant living in Oxford, he specializes in writing about WWII, Communism, Germany, and Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on peoples who have difficult historical heritages. He has an English father and a German mother. He is a fluent in German, French and Italian.

Together with John Corsellis, he wrote Slovenia 1945, which was published in English, Slovene and Italian. It recounted ...more

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A Foot In Both Camps: A German Past For Better And For Worse, by Marcus Ferrar, is available as an ebook for only 99p, $1.99, €1.99 in a year-end special offer. Valid until 15 January 2013.
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Published on December 15, 2012 13:45 • Tags: berlin-wall, dynamite, east-berlin, german-reunification, germany, hitler, nazis, nobel, world-war-i, world-war-ii

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Average rating: 3.25 · 161 ratings · 35 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Budapest House 2.93 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slovenia 1945 by John Corsellis, Marcus Ferrar (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fight for Freedom 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Foot In Both Camps: A German Past For Better And For Worse 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slovenia 1945: Memories of Death and Survival After World War II (Bloomsbury Ethics, 6) by John Corsellis, Marcus Ferrar (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half a Century in Tuscany really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fight for Freedom: Triumphs and Defeats 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Özgürlük Savascilari 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wrong War?: A British Officer writes home from Burma in WWII 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patriotism for sale: How Independent Slovenia Fell Foul of Crooked Arms Dealing by Matej Šurc, Marcus Ferrar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eva Joly (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars