City of Spies

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Operation STOSS (later named ZENTRUM) was a real plan for the invasion of West Berlin.

From 1985 to 1988, East German armed forces carried out Border’s Edge exercises, simulating this invasion.

During the 1980s, GDR military leaders ordered hundreds of the Bluecher Order for Bravery to be pressed. This medal was to be awarded only in time of war.

While the actual Operation STOSS documents were destroyed prior to German reunification in 1990, several former National People’s Army officers have confirmed the plan’s existence.

Most of the locations described in this novel were actual sites.

The three men watched the growing dawn in silence, their motorboat cutting through the river’s still-dark waters toward an island at the heart of Berlin. Ahead lay the stately dome of the Berlin Cathedral, and just beyond it, their destination. It was a massive modern structure across the avenue from the Cathedral. The sun’s first rays brilliantly glinted off the bronze-mirrored facade of the building, long known as the Palace of the Republic.

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