Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

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Garton Ash shows brilliantly how different factors aligned for Europe to triumph in 1989. The ’80s were the age of Eurosclerosis, when the project of integration was stalling and public debates across the continent were dominated by fears of nuclear war and environmental catastrophe. (Garton Ash noted in his diary on Dec. 31, 1980, in all capital letters: “We will see a nuclear war in this decade.”) In his account, it was individuals who made the difference: Thatcher, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, obviously, but also German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and European Commission President Jacques Delors. It is 1942. In a tram rattling through Nazi-occupied Warsaw sits an emaciated, half-starved 10-year-old boy. Bronek.... detail from Gazeta Wyborcza, DF, 21 July 2008, supplemented by communications from Jarosław Kurski. Outstanding. . . . Homelands is an elegantly written piece of contemporary history by one of Britain’s leading public intellectuals.”—Richard Briand, The Spectator A fluent and authoritative account of Europe since the Second World War, punctuated by vivid personal vignettes . . . from a passionate pro-European.”— Literary Review

the Polish and Czech words for king, król and král, derive from Karl – that is, Charlemagne... Peter H. Wilson, Heart of Europe. A History of the Holy Roman Empire, Harvard University Press, Cambridge/Massachusetts 2016, p.33. Garton Ash and his Polish-born wife Danuta live primarily in Oxford, England, and also near Stanford University in California as part of his work with the Hoover Institution. [14] They have two sons, Tom Ash, a web developer based in Canada, and Alec Ash, an author and editor focused on China. [14] His elder brother, Christopher, is a Church of England clergyman. [15] Bibliography [ edit ]

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a b Glover, Michael (2 September 1998). "Memoirs of an inadvertent spy". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022 . Retrieved 12 January 2017. We want God in books, in schools…' … see Timothy Garton Ash, The Polish Revolution. Solidarity, 3 rd edition, Yale University Press, New Haven/London 2002, p.32.

When Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France... detail in this paragraph from Wilson, Heart of Europe, pp.161-3, and Andrew Roberts, Napoleon the Great, Penguin Books, London 2015, pp.354-6 and pp.361-2. How are things?' you'd ask, and the reply would be... Fintan O’Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves. A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958, Head of Zeus, London 2021, p.239. a b Garton Ash, Timothy (12 April 2017). "We know the price of appeasement. That's why we must stand up to Viktor Orbán". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 September 2017. Garton Ash er politisk liberal. Intet er vigtigere end individet. Intet mere centralt i demokratiet end ytringsfriheden. Skarpe kapitler om anslagene mod det frie ord – Jyllands-Postens Muhammed-tegninger, terroren mod Charlie Hebdo, drabet på den franske skolelærer Samuel Paty – minder os om, at vi aldrig må lade voldsmandens veto vinde.nearly 4 out of every 10 continental EU citizens to speak English... 38%, to be exact, see Special Eurobarometer 386, p.19, https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/f551bd64-8615-4781-9be1-c592217dad83