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Basándose en medio siglo de experiencia directa y una erudición ejemplar, Timothy Garton Ash narra la historia de los triunfos y tragedias de la Europa de posguerra. Este libro examina si Europa es una entidad real o una construcción de pensamiento iluso. Garton Ash, conocido como el "historiador del presente" de Europa, ha estado inmerso en el continente durante los últimos cincuenta años. En su relato, emprende un viaje en el tiempo y el espacio por el continente de posguerra, utilizando sus propias notas de eventos significativos y ofreciendo relatos vívidos de sus protagonistas. Describe cómo Europa emergió de la devastación de la guerra para reconstruirse, triunfar con la caída del Muro de Berlín, y avanzar hacia la democratización y la unidad, pero también cómo comenzó a tambalearse. Es una historia singular de un período de progreso sin precedentes, junto con un análisis claro de los errores cometidos, desde la crisis financiera de 2008 hasta la guerra en Ucrania.

Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of millions. Never was there a time when the evils of unlimited speech flowed so easily across frontiers: violent intimidation, gross violations of privacy, tidal waves of abuse. A pastor burns a Koran in Florida and UN officials die in Afghanistan. Drawing on a lifetime of writing about dictatorships and dissidents, Timothy Garton Ash argues that in this connected world that he calls cosmopolis, the way to combine freedom and diversity is to have more but also better free speech. Across all cultural divides we must strive to agree on how we disagree. He draws on a thirteen-language global online project - freespeechdebate.com - conducted out of Oxford University and devoted to doing just that. With vivid examples, from his personal experience of China's Orwellian censorship apparatus to the controversy around Charlie Hebdo to a very English court case involving food writer Nigella Lawson, he proposes a framework for civilized conflict in a world where we are all becoming neighbours.

'Timothy Garton Ash is the best and most perceptive political writer of our time, and this book is a wonderful distillation of his thoughts on an extraordinary range of subjects. They were excellent as individual essays; put together like this, they shine the clearest of lights on an entire decade.' John Simpson

For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. Facts are Subversive, which collects his writings since the millennium, addresses some of the crucial questions of our time: what happens to people who have endured long dictatorships when they try to found a democratic state? How can freedom from tyranny be won? How are free expression, equality before the law and equal rights for men and women sustained in a society of different faiths and ethnicities? This is history of the pr

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At the start of the 21st century, the world plunged into crisis. What began as an attack on the West by Osama bin Laden soon became a dramatic confrontation between Europe and America. Britain has found itself painfully split, because it stands with one foot across the Atlantic and the other across the Channel. The English, in particular, are hopelessly divided between a Right that argues our place is with America, not Europe, and a Left that claims the opposite. This is today's English civil war. Both sides tell us we must choose. In this powerful new work Timothy Garton Ash, one of our leading political writers, explains why we cannot, need not and must not choose between Europe and America.

Známý oxfordský historik a publicista předkládá ve své knize mimořádně poutavou kroniku uplynulého desetiletí a bohaté řady jeho klíčových událostí od euforického "roku zázraků" 1989 až po celoevropské vystřízlivění konce 90. let. Ashovy kvality jako svědka i analytika evropského politického vývoje vynikají právě v "dějinách přítomnosti" jako pomyslném žánru, v němž má jen málo předchůdců a prakticky žádného konkurenta. Jeho rekapitulace uplynulé klíčové dekády moderní historie západu i východu Evropy v "esejích, črtách a zprávách" psaných jen v minimálním odstupu od popisovaných dějů tak nabízí kromě historického poučení i ukázku špičkové publicistiky, spojující cit pro aktuální detail s uměním zobecňující politické analýzy. Knihu doplňuje podrobná chronologie evropského vývoje v letech 1990-99.

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland’s first free parliamentary elections—in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory—or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power. This book is a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose aftereffects are still being felt today. As Garton Ash writes in an incisive new afterword, from the perspective of three decades later: “Freedom’s battle is never finally won. It must be fought anew in every generation.”

"The 1990s. An extraordinary decade in Europe. At its beginning the old order collapsed with the Berlin Wall. Everything seemed possible." "Timothy Garton Ash chronicles this best and worst of decades in a kaleidoscope of essays, sketches and despatches written as history was being made. He joins the East Germans for their decisive vote for unification and visits their former leader in prison. He accompanies the Poles on their roller-conster ride from dictatorship to democracy. He walks in mass demonstrations in Belgrade and travels through the killing fields of Kosovo. He uncover the motives for monetary union in Parts and Bonn." "Occasionally, he even becomes an actor in the drama he describes: debating Germany with Margaret Thatcher at Chequers or the role of the Intellectual with Vaclav Havel in Prague. In his introduction, he argues that we shouldn't wait until the archives are opened before starting to write the history of our own times. Then he shows how it can be done."--Jacket

When Timothy Garton Ash graduated from Oxford in 1978, he went to live in Berlin, ostensibly to research and write about Nazism. But once there, he gradually immersed himself in a study of the repressive political culture of East Germany. As if to return the favor, that culture--in the form of the dreaded East German secret police, the "Stasi"--secretly began studying him. As was Stasi's practice, over the years its study produced a considerable paper trail. After the fall of the East German communist regime, a government apparatus was established to allow those targeted to see their Stasi files, and Garton Ash discovered and pored over his. He then set about to interview the people who made this gross intrusion possible, the several case officers, and the numerous regular-citizen informers. The result is nothing short of a journey into the darkest recesses of the totalitarian mind, taking its place honorably alongside 1984 and Darkness at Noon .

From West Germany's "buying free" of people from East German prisons to the summit conversations between Kohl and Gorbachev, from the German minorities in Eastern Europe to the Bonn government's attitude toward opposition movements such as Poland's Solidarity, every important facet of the policy of Ostpolitik is explored.

Ten years ago Timothy Garton Ash came to East Berlin to find out from the archives what the Berliners had done under Hitler. Instead he found out - from the streets - what the Berliners were doing under Honecker. He observed the 'elections’; interviewed the local party members and talked into the night with an actor ('Dr Faust') who also worked for the State Security Service. He wrote about what he saw - in German - and the authorities protested. When he tried to return to East Berlin, he was turned back. He went to Poland and wrote a history of Solidarity. It was translated into Polish and became an underground bestseller. He was blacklisted at the frontier. He went to Prague to attend a Charter 77 meeting, but was met instead by the secret police. His reputation now seems to arrive before him. Ten years ago Timothy Garton Ash began to discover Central Europe. 'The Uses of Adversity' records what he found.

Der renommierte englische Historiker Timothy Garton Ash verfolgt seit Jahren die politischen Entwicklungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa als Augenzeuge in Gesprächen mit führenden Politikern und Intellektuellen. An den Brennpunkten Warschau, Prag, Budapest und Ostberlin begegnete er Lech Walesa, Václav Havel, Jacek Kuron, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Aleksander Dubcek, Bärbel Bohley, Kurt Masur, Hans Modrow u. v. a. Er hat Geheimtreffen, Demonstrationen und Streiks unmittelbar miterlebt, war an den Schauplätzen von der Lenin-Werft in Danzig bis zum konspirativen Treffpunkt im Prager Laterna-Magica-Theater. Reportagen vor Ort, Gesprächsprotokolle, Analysen und atmosphärische Skizzen hat Garton Ash zu einer faszinierenden Dokumentation und Analyse des Jahrzehnts vor und bis zur Revolution 1989 zusammengefaßt. Ein Jahrhundert wird abgewählt wurde 1991 »Das politische Buch des Jahres«.

The author was present in four countries - Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia - at cardinal moments in their emancipation during 1989 and describes the events

“One of the most brilliant and illuminating interpreters of modern eastern Europe . . . a wonderfully vivid writer . . . He reaches the parts that others do not reach.”—Richard Davy, The Times “The best single account of what happened—and why.”—Newsweek The definitive account of Solidarity’s spectacular rise and tragic fall . . . a book to set the record straight . . . amply documented, indispensable.”—John Darnton, New York Times Book Review A brilliant eyewitness and analyst, Timothy Garton Ash in this book offers a gripping account of the Polish shipyard workers who defied their communist rulers in 1980. He describes the emergence of the improbable leader Lech Walesa, the ensuing tumult that culminated in martial law, and—for this updated edition—the fate of the Solidarity movement in subsequent years.