Customer Review: An often eye-witness account of the democratic revolutions of 1989 in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia. The writing is a little uneven but it provides an excellent inside account of exceptional historic events. Ash left me with a very strong sense of the contingent and uncertain... more info
Customer Review: This book was one you couldn't put down. It was such an interesting look into such an intriguing time. Especially contrasted against today's era of homeland security it makes you wonder what does go on in "civilized" countries. The insights from the informers, Stasi Agents, and MI5 are... more info
Customer Review: This is fascinating. This very important topic could have made for boring reading, but the author (who obviously knows the subject thoroughly and first hand) has made it quite interesting. This book will never be outdated, as it covers past events that bring to mind so many things that are going on... more info
Customer Review: This book, as far as I can tell, remains to this day one of the best written and most comprehensive reports on what was happening during the 18 or so months from the creation of Solidarity movement in Poland in August 1980 to the imposition of martial law on December 13, 1981. And the library of... more info
Customer Review: This "Whither goes the West?" critique of emerging international relations is both thoughtful and literate, and raises in a careful way, many fundamental questions that, arguably, only a smoothly evolving and united European/American led future can answer. Should there be even the least disturbing... more info
Customer Review: HISTORY OF THE PRESENT, hands down, is a tough book to read, folks. Less so because of its content and more due to its style, TGA lords us over with several compelling viewpoints in this thick tome, miraculously still valid more than six (6) years after it went through its first editorial... more info
Customer Review: I read this book in the fall of 1989 and was amazed at Garton-Ash's ability to evoke the political spirit of the time. His prose meanders between the scholarly and the spectacular - no small feat when dealing with Europe on the edge of seismic transformation. If you have an interest in the history... more info
Customer Review: Although some of the philosophical writings are a bit dense, this is a worthy book for anyone fascinated by Czech society and literature, and by the pre-1989 samizdat era. The content is uneven, but it is a great insight into what these writers were doing before they were free to write. Don't go... more info
Customer Review: Timothy Garton Ash has mastered the art of telling a story in an involving and interesting way, yet without sacrificing scholarly exactitude or resorting to simplification. In this, his most scholarly work, Garton Ash takes a hard look at Germany's political history in the centre of Europe, focusing... more info
