Race Against the Stasi
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...
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...
