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Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europeâs triumphs and tragedies
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âIs Europe a real entity or a mere wishful-thinking construct? This closely observed book explores both possibilities.ââKirkus Reviews
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Timothy Garton Ash, Europeâs âhistorian of the present,â has been âbreathing Europeâ 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.
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Garton Ash offers an account of events as seen from the groundâhistory 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 dâhorizon and a tour de force.
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âIs Europe a real entity or a mere wishful-thinking construct? This closely observed book explores both possibilities.ââKirkus Reviews
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Timothy Garton Ash, Europeâs âhistorian of the present,â has been âbreathing Europeâ 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.
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Garton Ash offers an account of events as seen from the groundâhistory 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 dâhorizon and a tour de force.