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Homelands : a personal history of Europe
- Title
- Homelands : a personal history of Europe / Timothy Garton Ash.
- Author
- Garton Ash, Timothy
- Publication
- London : The Bodley Head, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xv, 363 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a Europe 'whole, free and at peace', and then faltered. Homelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, reportage and memoir by our greatest writer about European affairs. Drawing on half a century of travel and experience, Homelands tells the story of Europe in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - how, having emerged from its wartime hell in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a Europe 'whole, free and at peace'. And then faltered. Humane, expert and deeply felt, Homelands is full of encounters, conversations and anecdote. It is also highly personal- Timothy Garton Ash has spent a lifetime studying and thinking about Europe and this book is full of life itself, from his father's experience on D-Day, to his teenage French exchange, to interviewing Polish dockers, Albanian guerrillas, and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents in the UK, Europe, and the US. Homelands is both a singular history of a period of unprecedented progress and a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong, all the way from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. It culminates in an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved. --
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index
- Call Number
- JFE 23-1986
- ISBN
- 9781847926616
- 1847926614
- 9781847926623
- 1847926622
- 9781473585669 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1359608602
- Author
- Garton Ash, Timothy, author.
- Title
- Homelands : a personal history of Europe / Timothy Garton Ash.
- Publisher
- London : The Bodley Head, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- Since 1900
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781473585669
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-1986