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A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 - and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Beautifully written . . . The Picnic reads like a thriller Peter Frankopan 'Exhilarating'
In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organised a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnicit was located on the dangerous militarised frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest st
*WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2024* A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. 'A pivotal and exhilarating moment in