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Ghost Strasse - Table of Contents
“Working Men of All Countries, Unite!”—Marx (seated) and Engels, in The Communist Manifesto, 1848. Behind is Berlin’s Cathedral.

Ghost Strasse is published by

Black Rose Books

Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-290-5
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-291-3

PART ONE: THE PROMISED LAND

  1. A Funeral in Berlin (read an excerpt)
  2. An Economic Flop (read an excerpt)
  3. Life Becomes Complicated
  4. Retreat into Nostalgia
  5. The Boxer
  6. The Man Who Gave History a Nudge
  7. The Midnight Guerillas

PART TWO: THE POST COMMUNISTS

     8.   The Conjuror
     9.   The Meticulous Maverick

PART THREE: HITLER’S SHADOW

    10.  Unification Unleashes the Mob
    11.  A Swing to Extremist Parties
    12.  Reign of Terror in the Baroque City

PART FOUR: THE STASI REPUBLIC

    13.  Victims Fight to Avoid Oblivion (read an excerpt)
    14.  Echoes from the Dungeon
    15.  The Making of a Police State
    16.  The Gulag
    17.  The People Trade
    18.  Fading Heroes
    19.  From Marauder to Merchant
    20.  Awkward Questions for the Church

PART FIVE: THE WALL

    21.  The Death Strip
    22.  Cold War Camera
    23.  The Bar at the End of the World
    24.  Gartenschlaeger’s Private War
    25.  The Sergeant and the Singer
    26.  Gorbachev Gives His Answer