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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
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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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