{"product_id":"homelands-a-personal-history-of-europe-paperback","title":"Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Garton Ash\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize - A \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An irresistibly well-written book, fluent, witty, and intelligent.\"--Neal Acherson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Timothy Garton Ash, Europe's \"historian of the present,\" has been \"breathing Europe\" for the last half century. In \u003ci\u003eHomelands\u003c\/i\u003e he embarks on a journey in time and space around the postwar continent, drawing on his own notes from many great events, giving vivid firsthand accounts of its leading actors, revisiting the places where its history was made, and recalling its triumphs and tragedies through their imprint on the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Garton Ash offers an account of events as seen from the ground--history illustrated by memoir. He describes how Europe emerged from wartime devastation to rebuild, to triumph with the fall of the Berlin Wall, to democratize and unite. And then to falter. It is a singular history of a period of unprecedented progress along with a clear-eyed account of how so much went wrong, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. From the pen of someone who, in spite of Brexit, emphatically describes himself as an English European, this is both a \u003ci\u003etour d'horizon\u003c\/i\u003e and a \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Garton Ash\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of European studies at the University of Oxford and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Lantern\u003c\/i\u003e, his eyewitness account of the revolutions of 1989; \u003ci\u003eThe File: A Personal History\u003c\/i\u003e, based on reading his own Stasi file; and \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Present\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Oxford, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763845529888,"sku":"9780300276725","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/661cf659015a67ef1cc15c135550219a.webp?v=1780239994","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/homelands-a-personal-history-of-europe-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}