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The Race Against the Stasi

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Race Against the Stasi

By Herbie Sykes

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About the book

Cycling Book of the Year - Cross British Sports Book Awards When the 'Iron Curtain' descended across Europe, Dieter Wiedemann was a hero of East German sport. A podium finisher in The Peace Race, the Eastern Bloc equivalent of the Tour de France, he was a pin-up for the supremacy of socialism over the 'fascist' West. Unbeknownst to the authorities, however, he had fallen in love with Sylvia Hermann, a girl from the other side of the wall. Socialist doctrine had it that the two of them were 'clas...Show more

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9781781315361

Publisher

Aurum Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

The Race Against the Stasi

Format

Paperback

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