Picnic at the Iron Curtain by Susan Viets

Publisher: Delfryn Publishing and Consulting Inc.It is a memoir that spans a period of momentous historical change from 1988-1998, following through with an eyewitness account of Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004 Book Details 'Picnic at the Iron Curtain' shows every day people at the centre of dramatic events from Budapest to Bishkek and Chernobyl to Chechnya. Delfryn, 14.99 paper (276p) ISBN 978-0-987 Viets took her first trip to Communist Hungary when she was a student, but ended up working. Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraines Orange Revolution : Viets, Susan: Amazon.es: Libros Saltar al contenido principal.

Lured by new travel opportunities, Viets shops her way across Central Asia, stumbling into a tank attack in Tajikistan and the start of the Tajik civil war. She helps East Germans escape to the West at a picnic, moves to the Soviet Union where she battles authorities for accreditation as the first foreign journalist in Ukraine and then watches, amazed, as the entire political system collapses. Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraines Orange Revolution (Paperback). In this adventure-packed memoir Susan Viets, a student turned journalist, arrives in Communist Hungary in 1988 and begins reporting for the Guardian, not at all prepared for what lies ahead. Picnic at the Iron Curtain: A Memoir: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Ukraine's Orange. It is the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall when people are still willing to risk all to cross the Iron Curtain to the West. No Naked Ads -> Here Picnic at the iron curta., p.1.

Welcome to the world of collapsing Communism. It is also a 2012 Foreword's Book of the Year Award finalist and received an honorable mention at the 2013 San Francisco Book Festival. Picnic at the Iron Curtain won a 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist's award. Picnic at the Iron Curtain won a 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist's award.

Picnic at the Iron Curtain by Susan Viets