The File by Timothy Garton Ash
In 1991, after the Wall came down and the archives of Eastern Europe opened up, Timothy Garton Ash walked into the building that housed the files of the Stasi, the infamous East German secret police and asked if there was a file on him. There was - a thick one. In this work Ash describes what was in the file, and the avenues personal, political and historical, which he was led down by it. The book begins autobiographically, but opens out to show how Ash tracked down and confronted those who once pursued and monitored him. He shows how it is impossible to establish the "truth" of history and how the way we act depends overwhelmingly upon the circumstances in which we are placed.
Praise for Timothy Garton Ash: The Polish Revolution (Winner, Somerset Maugham Prize, 1983) 'A masterpiece' Times Literary Supplement. We the People (1990) 'It is with minimal exaggeration that I state that, in the future, there will probably be streets in warsaw, Prague and Budapest bearing the name of Timothy Garton Ash.' Karel Kyncl, Independent. 'He is our best informed and beadiest commentator on Europe - eloquent, sceptical, fearless, with a tinge of idealism so wary as to be acceptable.' Craig Raine
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of ten books of history of the present which have explored many facets of Europe over the last half-century. He is Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He also writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated, and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, amongst other journals. His books include The File: A Personal History, In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent and, most recently, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. Awards he has received for his writing include the International Charlemagne Prize and the George Orwell Prize. The Magic Lantern, originally published in 1990, has been translated into twenty languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002558235 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002558238 |
| Titel | The File |
| Autor | Timothy Garton Ash |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1997-07-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 240 |
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