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Homelands

A Personal History of Europe

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Homelands

Written by: Timothy Garton Ash
Narrated by: John Sackville
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Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies

Timothy Garton Ash, Europe's "historian of the present," has been "breathing Europe" for the last half century. In Homelands 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.

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 tour d'horizon and a tour de force.

©2023 Timothy Garton Ash (P)2023 Tantor 20th Century 21st Century Europe Modern War Socialism Imperialism Soviet Union Russia Middle East Holocaust Middle Ages Latin America Capitalism Interwar Period
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Well read and researched. Important oft forgot thinkers referenced and events too frequently ignored brought to the forefront.

Outstanding insight. An essential read for 2025.

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