Title: The File( A Personal History) Binding: Paperback Author: AshTimothyGarton Publisher: VintageBooks

The File: A Personal History

Biographies & Memoirs

ASH, TIMOTHY GARTON

Leaders & Notable People

Vintage

The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (Granta Books)

History

Europe

Penguin Uk

The author was present in four countries - Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia - at cardinal moments in their emancipation during 1989 and describes the events.

We The People

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

The author was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. He witnessed the defiance of the workers and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in Lech Walesa. This book, therefore, acts as an eyewitness account of the occurances cited but also it provides an analysis of the powers ranged against Solidarity and of their pyrrhic victory. The author describes Solidarity's long underground struggle, its triumphant return in 1989 and the ironies of its subsequent disintegration.

Polish Revolution

The story of Solidarity - as seen by Timothy Garton Ash from the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. This new edition has been updated.

Uses Of Adversity

The Uses of Adversity (Paperback)

Penguin

Political writer and activist Timothy Garton Ash has travelled the globe and undertaken countless interviews &amp;ndash, ranging from conversations with Bush, Blair and Schr&amp;ouml,der to encounters with farmers in Kansas and soldiers in Aldershot &amp;ndash, to challenge the myth that America and Europe can never meet. This radical

Free World

In Europes Name

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The 1990s. An extraordinary decade in Europe. At its beginning, the old order collapsed along with the Berlin Wall. Everything seemed possible. Everyone hailed a brave new Europe. But no one knew what this new Europe would look like. Now we know. Most of Western Europe has launched into the unprecedented gamble of monetary union, though Britain stands aside. Germany, peacefully united, with its capital in Berlin, is again the most powerful country in Europe. The Central Europeans—Poles, Czechs, Hungarians—have made successful transitions from communism to capitalism and have joined NATO. But farther east and south, in the territories of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia, the continent has descended into a bloody swamp of poverty, corruption, criminality, war, and bestial atrocities such as we never thought would be seen again in Europe. Timothy Garton Ash chronicles this formative decade through a glittering collection of essays, sketches, and dispatches written as history was being made. He joins the East Germans for their decisive vote for unification and visits their former leader in prison. He accompanies the Poles on their roller-coaster ride from dictatorship to democracy. He uncovers the motives for monetary union in Paris and Bonn. He walks in mass demonstrations in Belgrade and travels through the killing fields of Kosovo. Occasionally, he even becomes an actor in a drama he describes: debating Germany with Margaret Thatcher or the role of the intellectual with Václav Havel in Prague. Ranging from Vienna to Saint Petersburg, from Britain to Ruthenia, Garton Ash reflects on how "the single great conflict" of the cold war has been replaced by many smaller ones. And he asks what part the United States still has to play. Sometimes he takes an eagle's-eye view, considering the present attempt to unite Europe against the background of a thousand years of such efforts. But often he swoops to seize one telling human story: that of a wiry old farmer in Croatia, a newspaper editor in Warsaw, or a bitter, beautiful survivor from Sarajevo. His eye is sharp and ironic but always compassionate. History of the Present continues the work that Garton Ash began with his trilogy of books about Central Europe in the 1980s, combining the crafts of journalism and history. In his Introduction, he argues that we should not wait until the archives are opened before starting to write the history of our own times. Then he shows how it can be done.

History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s

A study of today's Germany examines the impact of a united Germany on European economics, demographics, and politics

In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent

Travel

United States

Random House]

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