Dispatches from Berlin: Walls and Secrets

As the Berlin Wall crumbles, two lives are unexpectedly connected by history’s fault lines.

Veteran foreign correspondent Natalie Chester races into West Berlin on the night the Wall opens, expecting the story of a lifetime—crowds surging toward freedom, a superpower standoff dissolving in real time, a Cold War ending in celebration not bloodshed. Instead, she finds her judgment is questioned. Sidelined by her editor, she’s paired with David Schiller, a gifted but guarded American photograp...