Bibliograph

Homelands, a personal history of Europe, Timothy Garton Ash

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Homelands, a personal history of Europe, Timothy Garton Ash

Language

eng

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Homelands

Oclc number

1346618106

Responsibility statement

Timothy Garton Ash

Sub title

a personal history of Europe

Summary

"Timothy Garton Ash, Europe's "historian of the present," has been "breathing Europe" for the last half century. In Homelands he embarks on a journey in time and space around the postwar continent, drawing on his own notes from many great events, giving vivid firsthand accounts of its leading actors, revisiting the places where its history was made, and recalling its triumphs and tragedies through their imprint on the present. Garton Ash offers an account of events as seen from the ground--history illustrated by memoir. He describes how Europe emerged from wartime devastation to rebuild, to triumph with the fall of the Berlin Wall, to democratize and unite. And then to falter. It is a singular history of a period of unprecedented progress along with a clear-eyed account of how so much went wrong, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. From the pen of someone who, in spite of Brexit, emphatically describes himself as an English European, this is both a tour d'horizon and a tour de force"--, Amazon

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