Steve Vogel is the author of Through The Perilous Fight and The Pentagon: A History. He is a veteran journalist who has written extensively for The Washington Post about military affairs and the treatment of veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His reporting about the war in Afghanistan was part of a package of Washington Post stories selected as a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. Vogel covered the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon, and the building’s subsequent reconstruction. Vogel covered the war in Iraq and the first Gulf War, as well as U.S. military operations in Rwanda, Somalia, and the Balkans. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, he received a master’s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Steve Vogel is the perfect person to write Betrayal in Berlin. A reporter for the Washington Post for more than two decades, Vogel reported from Cold War Germany and covered the fall of the Berlin Wall. The story also carries a personal element for Vogel, who was born in the U.S. Army hospital in West Berlin, where his father, then a young CIA case officer, served from 1957 to 1962 during some of the tensest days of the Cold War.