Unchained Eagle: Germany After The Wall
By Tom Heneghan
Pearson Education, London, 2000
256 pages   ISBN: 0273650122


Biography
Tom Heneghan took up his posting as Reuters Chief Correspondent for Germany in the spring of 1989 and was on the spot when the Berlin Wall burst open that autumn. Over the next eight years, he travelled around the country covering the events and issues in this book and followed Helmut Kohl on foreign trips as far afield as Moscow, Tokyo and Denver. At the end of the NATO bombing campaign in 1999, he entered Kosovo with the Bundeswehr to report on the first German combat troops deployed abroad since World War Two.

Born in New York in 1951, Heneghan studied modern languages at Fordham University in New York and Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, West Germany and earned a masters degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston. Since joining Reuters as a trainee in 1977, he has held postings as correspondent and editor in London, Vienna, Geneva, Islamabad, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Bonn and Paris.

His previously published work includes contributions to Eastern Europe's Uncertain Future (New York: Prager, 1977), EMU Explained (London: Kogan Page, 1997), Frontlines: Snapshots of History (London: Pearson Education, 2001) , Afghanistan: Lifting the Veil (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002) and Pope John Paul II: Reaching Out Across Borders (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003) as well as articles in America, Beliefnet, Commonweal, Europa-Archiv, National Catholic Reporter, Newsday, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Leader, The Tablet and The World Today.

Heneghan is currently Reuters Religion Editor and Senior Correspondent for France and lives in Paris with his wife, French journalist Elisabeth Auvillain, and their sons Patrick, Mark and Christopher.