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Table of contents :
Timeline of Events

Prologue: Leaving Berlin

Part One   The American Correspondent
1   The Writer
2   His Luck Holds
3   The American Correspondent
4   The Long Train Home
5   His Luck Holds Again
6   Gestapo at the Train Station

Part Two   The Good American
7   Berlin and the World
8   Tauentzienstrasse
9   The Watering Hole
10   The Dirty Liar
11   Parading Down the Wilhelmstrasse
12   Bad Writing
13   Get Out of the Country
14   Drinks at the Adlon
15   The Jewish Doctor
16   Clearing the Mountains
17   The Photographer
18   Sigrid Wakes Him Up
19   Lies as Thick as Grass
20   The Germans Are Out of Their Minds
21   Riding in Staff Cars
22   War of the Worlds
23   A Long Train Ride to Tess
24   Crowded Buses
25   A Warning from a Friend
Postscript The Ruins

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