Marcus Ferrar was a journalist with Reuters for 18 years. In 1971/72 during the Cold War he was the only western correspondent in East Berlin. He subsequently lived in Prague and over three years covered all of Eastern Europe. He then reported the Portuguese revolution and served in the management of Reuters. Now a writer and an award-winning communication consultant living in Oxford, he specializes in writing about WWII, Communism, Germany, and Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on peoples who have difficult historical heritages. He has an English father and a German mother. He is a fluent in German, French and Italian. Together with John Corsellis, he wrote Slovenia 1945, which was published in English, Slovene and Italian. It recounted the flight of Slovene Catholics after World War II, the British Army’s repatriation of 12,000 soldiers among them to ex-Yugoslavia, their slaughter by Communist Partisans, and the scattering of the civilian survivors around the world. In Slovenia, this book was a best-seller. In Britain it occasioned questions in Parliament and an expression of regret by a Foreign Office minister. In Oxford, he is Chairman of the Friends of Summertown Library.