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"Timothy Garton Ash chronicles this formative decade through a glittering collection of essays, sketches, and dispatches written as history was being made. He joins the East Germans for their decisive vote for unification and visits their former leader in prison. He accompanies the Poles on their roller-coaster ride from dictatorship to democracy. He uncovers the motives for monetary union in Paris and Bonn. He walks in mass demonstrations in Belgrade and travels through the killing fields of Kosovo.
Occasionally, he even becomes an actor in a drama he describes: debating Germany with Margaret Thatcher or the role of the intellectual with Vaclav Havel in Prague. Ranging from Vienna to Saint Petersburg, from Britain to Ruthenia, Garton Ash reflects on how the single great conflict of the cold war has been replaced by many smaller ones. And he asks what part the United States still has to play. Sometimes he takes an eagle's-eye view, considering the present attempt to unite Europe against the background of a thousand years of such efforts.
But often he swoops to seize one telling human story, that of a wiry old farmer in Croatia, a newspaper editor in Warsaw, or a bitter, beautiful survival from Sarajevo."--BOOK JACKET.
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Ethnic relations, Foreign relations, History, Politics and government, Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989-, Europe, politics and government, 1989-, Europe, eastern, politics and government, 1989-, Europe, ethnic relations, Europe, foreign relationsPlaces
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September 11, 2001, Vintage
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History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s
September 26, 2000, Random House
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History of the present: essays, sketches and despatches from Europe in the 1990s
1999, Allen Lane, the Penguin Press
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0713993235 9780713993233
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History of the present: essays, sketches, and dispatches from Europe in the 1990s
1999, Random House
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-430) and index.
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