Dispatches from Berlin: Walls and Secrets

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...