The File (27 page)

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

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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.

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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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