Amounting to a history of Central Europe after the collapse of soviet control, Ash joins the East Germans in their decisive vote for unification, visiting the former leader in prison, accompanies the Poles on their roller-coaster ride to democracy, travels through the killing fields of Kosovo and more.
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History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s by Timothy Garton Ash
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The solution; apres le deluge, nous; the Chequers affair; Germany unbound; after solidarity; the visit; seven cities; fathers and sons; the banality of the good; intellectuals and politicians; Marta and Helena; catching the wrong bus? cleansed Croatia; Bosnian glimpses; Bosnia in our future; abnormal normality; forty years on; the Serbian tragedy; the witness wolf; bad memories; trials, purges and history lessons; the case of Liberal Order; goodbye to Bonn; be not afraid!; cry, the dismembered country; long live Ruthenia!; where is central Europe now? Helena's kitchen; war over Kosovo; return to Kosovo; the protectorate; anarchy and madness; envoi.
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GOR002177379
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History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s by Timothy Garton Ash
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