Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Timothy Garton Ash

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid experiences: from his father's memories of D-Day and his own surveillance at the hands of the Stasi to interviewing Albanian guerrillas in the mountains of Kosovo

Homelands - Timothy Garton Ash

**A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a

File - A Personal History (Ash Timothy Garton (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Timothy Garton Ash lived behind the Berlin Wall and joined the millions spied on by the Stasi. In 1993, he gained access to his Stasi file. Here he tells his story, in a classic memoir of dictatorship and betrayal. 'A chilling portrait of treachery and compromise... bravely and beautifully

Magic Lantern - The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (Ash Timothy Garton (Author))(Paperback / softback)

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw, on 4 June, when the communist government was

Rok zázraků - Timothy Garton Ash - e-kniha

eBook: Svazek reportáží světoznámého britského historika, politologa a publicisty představuje jedinečné zachycení převratných událostí roku 1989, tak jak postupně zasáhly čtyři středoevropské komunistické režimy včetně tehdejšího Československa. Autor se přitom

Evropa, náš domov - Timothy Garton Ash - e-kniha

eBook:,Kniha Evropa, náš domov představuje osobně laděného průvodce po dějinách našeho kontinentu v posledním více než půlstoletí. Je nabitá fakty, bezprostředními zážitky i empatickými pohledy na proměňující se svět evropské liberální demokracie. Příběh moderní

Evropa, náš domov - Timothy Garton Ash

Proslulý historik a novinář se již téměř půl století zabývá rolí Evropy při utváření moderního světa a výzvami, jimž musí čelit. Byl svědkem revolucí v řadě 'satelitů' Sovětského svazu a jeho kontakty s inspirátory politických změn mu poskytly cenný materiál pro

An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Roche Helen)(Paperback)

A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of 'transnational history,' Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence in 10 languages, putting fresh twists on the

An Alternative History of Britain: The Tudors (Venning Timothy)(Paperback)

Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the Tudor period. As always, he discusses the crucial junctions at which history could easily have taken a different turn.Continuing his exploration of the pathways of British history,

A History of Modern Europe (Lindemann Albert S.)(Paperback)

A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from thedefeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting majorhistorical themes in an authoritative and compellingnarrative. Concise, readable single volume covering Europe from the earlynineteenth century through the early twenty-first

History of Byzantium 2e (Gregory Timothy E.)(Paperback)

Danubia - A Personal History of Habsburg Europe (Winder Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives,

Gates of Europe - A History of Ukraine (Plokhy Serhii)(Paperback / softback)

'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' (David Blair Sunday Telegraph)Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the landscape,

Postwar - A History of Europe Since 1945 (Judt Tony)(Paperback / softback)

Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. This title tells the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here

Personal History of David Copperfield (Dickens Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Published alongside Armando Iannucci's new film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Tilda Swinton and Ben Whishaw. Introduced by Armando

Civil Rights Stories: Refugees and Homelands (Spilsbury Louise)(Pevná vazba)

An introductory book on the powerful topic of refugees throughout history and the ongoing struggles that refugees face as they flee their

A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe (Steen Charlie R.)(Paperback)

A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the Napoleonic period, exploring culture in the broadest sense by selecting a variety of sources not commonly used in history books, such as plays, popular

Tibet, Tibet - A Personal History of a Lost Land (French Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of India: A Portrait, Patrick French's Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land has been acclaimed as the book that showed the real Tibet for the first time. Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of

The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe (Calic Marie-Janine)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting place

Children of Ash and Elm - A History of the Vikings (Price Neil)(Pevná vazba)

Shortest History of Europe (Hirst John)(Paperback / softback)

From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Connelly John)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action

An Economic History of Europe Since 1700 (Zamagni Vera)(Paperback)

An economic history of modern Europe, suitable for course use, which sets European events within the wider context of world economic progress and alongside developments in Asia, Eastern Europe and the United

Europe Since Napoleon (Thomson David)(Paperback / softback)

A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering the main topics of that