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Angel Books: Excerpt from Deutschland: A Winter’s Tale by Heinrich Heine, bilingual edition with translation, introduction and notes by T. J. Reed, Angel Books, London, 1997. Reprinted by permission. Harcourt Brace & Company and Faber and Faber Limited: Three lines from “Burnt Norton” in Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot. Copyright © 1943 by T. S. Eliot. Copyright renewed 1971 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Rights outside of the United States are controlled by Faber and Faber Limited, London. Reprinted by permission. Random House UK Ltd: Excerpt from “Song of the Moldan” from Poems and Songs From the Plays by Bertolt Brecht, translated by John Willetts, published by Methuen. Reprinted by permission.
TIMOTHY GARTON ASH
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing and “history of the present,” which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter century. They include The Polish Revolution, The Uses of Adversity, The Magic Lantern, The File, and History of the Present. He is the Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books, and he writes a column in The Guardian that is syndicated across Europe and the Americas.
BOOKS BY TIMOTHY GARTON ASH
IN EUROPE’S NAME
Germany and the Divided Continent
In this brilliantly nuanced book, one of our most respected authorities on Central Europe tells the story of German reunification. Drawing on sources that range from the files of East Germany’s secret police to the personal papers of West German leaders—and on interviews with such figures as Helmut Kohl, Eduard Shevardnadze, and the imprisoned Erich Honecker—Garton Ash has produced a panoramic, dramatic, and definitive account of events that are continuing to transform the map of Europe.
Current Affairs/History/978-0-679-75557-9
THE MAGIC LANTERN
The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed
in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
Whether covering Poland’s first free parliamentary elections—in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of 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. In this book Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose aftereffects will resonate for years to come.
Current Affairs/History/978-0-679-74048-3
ALSO AVAILABLE
The File, 978-0-679-77785-4
The History of the Present, 978-0-375-72762-7
Free World, 978-1-4000-7646-8
VINTAGE BOOKS
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FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, OCTOBER 1998
Copyright © 1997 by Timothy Garton Ash
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. First published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, in 1997. Originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., London, in 1997.
Permissons acknowledgments appear.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garton Ash, Timothy.
The file : a personal history / Timothy Garton Ash.
p. cm.
1. Deception—Political aspects—Germany (East).
2. Germany (East)—Foreign public opinion, British.
3. Great Britain—Foreign public opinion, East German.
4. Timothy Garton Ash. 5. Journalists—Great Britain
—Biography. 6. Germany (East). 7. Ministerium für Staatssicherheit.
8. Internal security—Germany (East).
9. Secret service—Great Britain—History—20th century.
I. Title.
eISBN: 978-0-307-75676-3
DD286.4.G37 1998
943’.1—dc21 98-36444
Author photograph © Isolde Ohlbaum
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