The Magic Lantern - The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing - 'history of the present' - which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last three decades. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, where he is Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and his weekly column for the Guardian is widely syndicated across Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has received many awards for his writing, including the Somerset Maugham Award and the Orwell Prize.

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Timothy Garton Ash

Summary

A stunningly evocative eye-witness account of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989, reissued with a new chapter to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of these epochal events.

Foreword

A stunningly evocative eye-witness account of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989, reissued with a new chapter to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of these epochal events.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Garton Ash, Timothy Garton (Author) Ash, Ash Timothy Garton
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2019
• EAN: 9781838950705
• ISBN: 978-1-83895-070-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 183 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Europe, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Germany, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Revolutionary, Memoirs, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership