"Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past." --The New York Times
In 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton [...]
A brilliant eyewitness and analyst, Timothy Garton Ash in this book offers a gripping account of the Polish shipyard workers who defied their communist rulers in 1980. He describes the emergence of the improbable leader Lech Walesa, the ensuing tumult that culminated in martial law, and for this [...]
A reportage by one of Britain's most distinguished non-fiction writers that describes what happened when he got access to the file on him kept during his years in East Germany by the Stasi, the infamous secret police.[...]
For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. This book collects his writings since the millennium, that addresses some of the crucial questions of our time. It is history of the pr[...]