In Stories without Borders, Julia Sonnevend considers the ways in which we recount and remember news stories of historic significance. ...this well-written essay is particularly valuable for researchers, teachers, and students in media studies and journalism, political science, history, memory and cultural studies. Scholars interested in the theorization of events, discussions on globalization, and in the role of the media as mythmakers and institutions of cultural memory will find the first two chapters and conclusion particularly thought-provoking. The book's central five chapters provide a detailed study of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a persuasive case of "global iconic event." By the end of the essay, the books first sentence, " There was no Berlin Wall, and it never fell," is well proven.