Dr Berlin

Dr Berlin is the third novel, Making Enemies and Secret Kingdom being the previous two, in Francis Bennett's Cold War trilogy. All three are reissued in Faber Finds.

Like the first two Dr Berlin centres around a pivotal moment in the Cold War: the building of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. As one reviewer of this book remarked, 'the Iron Curtain had become concrete. '

Dr Berlin is a successful academic at the Moscow Institute of History and leads the privileged life of a Party member. But h...