Spending the 1989-1990 academic year in Eastern Germany, the historian Robert Darnton found himself caught up in the dramatic events in Berlin and Leipzig which eventually forced the re-unification of Germany. This eye-witness account by a distinguished historian of the French Revolution traces a revolution of a different kind where there were no barricades, no storming of the Bastille and no guillotines. Robert Darnton also wrote "The Kiss of Lamourette".