Table of Contents

Foreword
John M. Shalikashvili, General U.S. Army

Preface

Chapter 1. First Experiences in Moscow
Chapter 2. Developments in Security Policy after 1988
Chapter 3. First Talks with the GDR Leadership
Chapter 4. The NVA Prior to 3 October 1990
Chapter 5. Last Days Before Unification
Chapter 6. In the Bundeswehr-Kommando Ost
Chapter 7. Daily Routine
Chapter 8. First Decisions on Disbanding Units
Chapter 9. An Interim Balance Sheet - Between Hope and Resignation
Chapter 10. Optimism Spreads
Chapter 11. Questions of Social Welfare
Chapter 12. The New Era Becomes Apparent
Chapter 13. The Reconstruction
Chapter 14. The Federal President Visits the Eastern Headquarters
Chapter 15. Visible Progress

Epilogue

Select List of Names
Index

About the Author

Jörg Schönbohm, General staff training at the Bundeswehr Führungsakademie; from 1978 with the Ministry of Defense in Bonn before being put in charge of the new Bundeswehr CommandEast in 1990. Having served as Inspector of the Army in 1991 he assumed the position of Staatssekretär in the Ministry of Defense a year later.

Reviews

About the German edition:
"... excellent and very helpful."  · John R. Galvin, Gen. (Ret.), US Military Academy, West Point "[This book] is worth reading. It is honest and does not hide anything ... it contains many interesting dates and facts."  · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung