Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.
Timothy Garton Ash,our greatest writer about Europe,has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid experiences: from his father's memories of D-Day and his own surveillance at the hands of the Stasi to interviewing Albanian guerrillas in the mountains of Kosovo and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris,as well as advising prime ministers,chancellors and presidents.
Homelands is at once a living,breathing history of a period of unprecedented progress,a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong and an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781847926616Number of pages: 384Weight: 611 gDimensions: 240 x 162 x 35 mm
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'A moving love letter to Europe,Homelands merges memoir,political analysis and social criticism to reflect on the future of a continent still haunted by its past'- Lea Ypi,author of Free
'The right book for Europe,at the right time... the perfect book for the present'- Timothy Snyder,author of On Tyranny
'We know there are Germans,Italians,Spaniards and Poles - but are there Europeans Yes,at least one: Timothy Garton Ash. Homelands is the brilliant,captivating story of how he became one'- Mark Lilla,author of The Once and Future Liberal
'This book,from a man who had a front-row seat to much of the history he describes,draws on his experiences and those of his friends to bring events to vivid life'- M. E. Sarotte,author of Not One Inch
'Garton Ash deftly combines scholarship,journalistic experience,and personal observations and stories in Homelands... delightful and thought-provoking'- Robert B. Zoellick,author of America in the World
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