Homelands

Resumen del libro

'Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... panoramic ...

defiantly hopeful' Financial TimesDrawing 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 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 and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents.

Homelands is at once a living, breathing history of a period of unprecedented progress, a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong and an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved. 'The right book for Europe, at the right time' Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of Free

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Timothy Garton Ash x{0026}lt;/B (1955) es un historiador y periodista británico conocido por la brillantez con que ha documentado la transformación de Europa durante el último cuarto de siglo. Es profesor de Estudios Europeos en la Universidad de Oxford y Senior Fellow del Instituto Hoover, en la Universidad de Stanford. Escribe regularmente en medios como x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The Guardianx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I The Washington Post x{0026}lt;/I o x{0026}lt;I The Wall Street Journalx{0026}lt;/I . A menudo se habla del trabajo de Garton Ash como una "historia del presente".x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Tenía diecisiete años cuando Gran Bretaña entró en la Comunidad Europea y sesenta y cuatro cuando la abandonó. Desde entonces ha vivido y respirado la política europea, ha sido testigo de algunas de las escenas más dramáticas de su historia, ha entrevistado a muchos de sus protagonistas y ha analizado la evolución de la vida de los europeos de a pie a lo largo y ancho del continente.x{0026}lt;/P