Description: 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 .
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Book Title: Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
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Narrative Type: Non-Fiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
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Intended Audience: Adults
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Publication Year: 2023
Type: Memoirs
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 235mm
Author: Timothy Garton Ash
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Topic: Opinion of the People
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Item Width: 153mm
Number of Pages: 363
