Peter Millar (journalist)
Peter Millar is a Northern Irish journalist, critic and author, primarily known for his reporting of the later days of the Cold War and fall of the Berlin Wall. Early life. Millar was born in Bangor, Co Down and educated at Bangor Central Primary School and Bangor Grammar School, then Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read French and Russian. Career. Millar was hired by Reuters in 1976 and worked in London and Brussels before being sent from Fleet Street to East Berlin by the news agency, where in the early 1980s he was the only non-German  correspondent. Millar also reported on the Solidarity movement in Poland before moving to Warsaw and then Moscow. He joined "The Daily Telegraph" before in 1985 moving to the "Sunday Telegraph", whose editor Peregrine Worsthorne agreed to Millar's suggestion to give him the role of Central Europe Correspondent: "I persuaded him to let me style myself Central Europe Correspondent, thereby not just inventing a job but revitalising a term – Central Europe – that had been current for centuries but dormant since the onset of the Cold War and the continent's split down an ideological fault line". In 1989, in the  run-up to the final stages of The Cold War, Millar moved to "The Sunday Times". He was arrested in East Berlin during demonstrations during Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's visit for East Germany's 40th anniversary parades, and was interrogated by the Stasi before being expelled from East Germany. Two weeks later Millar returned to Berlin, however, to witness and report on the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. One passage Millar wrote for a "Sunday Times" article, about events as they unfolded in Prague, Publications. Millar has translated several German language  books into English, including the "White Masai" series by Corinne Hofmann and "Deal With the Devil" by Martin Suter. He is also the translator of several online books published by Lübbe AG of Cologne, Germany, including "Apokalypsis" by Mario Giordano.