Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

by Helena Merriman

As the tank mows through the square, the protesters hurl bricks, stones, even push cars into its path to stop it, but it’s pointless. Like a malfunctioning robot, the tank keeps going.

In a building in a village near Nuremberg, a small group of men and women sat at tables reconnecting these dislocated pages, solving A4 puzzles of people’s monitored lives.

Wolfdieter is intoxicated by the fresh memory, spends days with it, rolling it around in his head, until he no longer knows what’s memory and what’s a dream.