Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. His most recent book is Free World. (November 2008)
From the Review
November 6, 2008: A Fateful Election
August 16, 2007: The Road from Danzig
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel by Günter Grass
Dummer August by Günter Grass
Ein Buch, Ein Bekenntnis: Die Debatte um Günter Grass' "Beim Häuten der Zwiebel" by Martin Kölbel
Peeling the Onion by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim
July 19, 2007: 'The Stasi on Our Minds': An Exchange
May 31, 2007: The Stasi on Our Minds
The Lives of Others a film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Das Leben der anderen: Filmbuch by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
October 5, 2006: Islam in Europe
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
February 9, 2006: The Twins' New Poland
November 3, 2005: Soldiers of the Hidden Imam
April 28, 2005: The Orange Revolution
September 23, 2004: A Genius for Friendship
Letters, 1928–1946 by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy
September 25, 2003: Orwell's List
February 13, 2003: Anti-Europeanism in America
November 7, 2002: On the Frontier
December 20, 2001: Europe at War
November 29, 2001: Is There a Good Terrorist?
November 1, 2001: Odd Man Out
The Heart Beats on the Left by Oskar Lafontaine, translated from the Germanby Ronald Taylor
May 17, 2001: The European Orchestra
November 16, 2000: The Last Revolution
September 21, 2000: Kosovo: Was It Worth It?
Kosovo: War and Revenge by Tim Judah
Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo by Ivo H Daalder, by Michael E. O'Hanlon
Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond by Michael Ignatieff
Kosovo House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee, London: Stationery Office
Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions by William J. Buckley
The Crisis in Kosovo 1989-1999 by Marc Weller
May 25, 2000: Beauty and the Beast in Burma
February 10, 2000: Anarchy & Madness
November 18, 1999: Ten Years After
June 24, 1999: Kosovo and Beyond
April 22, 1999: Hail Ruthenia!
March 18, 1999: The Puzzle of Central Europe
January 14, 1999: Cry, the Dismembered Country
November 5, 1998: Goodbye to Bonn
October 22, 1998: Orwell in 1998
The Complete Works of George Orwell edited by Peter Davison, assisted by Ian Angus, by Sheila Davison
May 14, 1998: Europe: Iceberg Ahead
Europe Adrift by John Newhouse
February 19, 1998: The Truth About Dictatorship
Transitional Justice: How Emerging Democracies Reckon with Former Regimes Studies, 780 pp.; Volume III: Laws, Rulings, and Reports, 834 pp., Volume I: General Considerations, 604 pp.; Volume II: Country, edited by Neil J. Kritz
Politik und Schuld: Die zerstörerische Macht des Schweigens [Politics and Guilt: The Destructive Power of Staying Silent] by Gesine Schwan
Die Enquete-Kommission 'Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland' im Deutschen Bundestag [Inquiry Commission in the German Bundestag (for the) 'Treatment of the Past and Consequences of the SED-Dictatorship in Germany']
Spór o PRL [The Controversy about the Polish People's Republic]
December 4, 1997: Not Comparable (letter)
August 14, 1997: The Curse and Blessing of South Africa
July 17, 1997: True Confessions
June 26, 1997: The Imperfect Spy
Man Without A Face: The Autobiography of Communism's Greatest Spymaster by Markus Wolf
Die Troika (The Troika) by Markus Wolf. (out of print)
In eigenem Auftrag (On My Own Orders) by Markus Wolf. (out of print)
Geheimnisse der russischen Küche (Secrets of Russian Cuisine) by Markus Wolf
Markus Wolf: 'Ich bin kein Spion' (Markus Wolf: 'I Am Not a Spy') by Irene Runge, by Uwe Stelbrink. (out of print)
Spymaster: The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police by Leslie Colitt
Wolfs West-Spione (Wolf's West-Spies) by Peter Richter, by Klaus Rösler
April 24, 1997: In the Serbian Soup
November 14, 1996: Hungary's Revolution: Forty Years On
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Reform, Revolt and Repression, 1953-1963 H. Legers. edited by György Litván. English version edited and translated by János M. Bak and Lyman
Hungary's Negotiated Revolution: Economic Reform, Social Change, and Political Succession, 1957-1990 by Rudolf L. Tokés
April 4, 1996: Tracer (letter)
March 21, 1996: On Olga Havel (1933–1996)
March 21, 1996: The Foul Balkan Sky? (letter)
January 11, 1996: 'Neo-Pagan' Poland
December 21, 1995: Bosnia in Our Future
October 19, 1995: Do Trials Work? (letter)
July 13, 1995: Central Europe: The Present Past
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg
January 12, 1995: Prague: Intellectuals & Politicians
December 1, 1994: Kohl's Germany: The Beginning of the End?
June 23, 1994: Journey to the Post-Communist East
February 11, 1993: An Appeal
October 24, 1991: Let the East Europeans In!
October 24, 1991: Solidarity's Sources (letter)
June 13, 1991: Poland After Solidarity
The Roots of Solidarity: A Political Sociology of Poland's Working-Class Democratization by Roman Laba
Breaking the Barrier: The Rise of Solidarity in Poland by Lawrence Goodwyn
Rok 1989: Bronislaw Geremek Opowiada, Jacek Zakowski Pyta (The Year 1989: Bronislaw Geremek Relates, Jacek Zakowski Asks)
Droga Do Wolnosci: 1985–1990, Decydujace Lata (The Path to Freedom: 1985–1990, the Decisive Years) by Lech Walesa
Wódz (The Chief) by Jaroslaw Kurski
April 11, 1991: The Plight of Kosovo (letter)
March 7, 1991: The Gulf in Europe
January 17, 1991: Germany at the Frontier
November 22, 1990: Germany Unbound
September 27, 1990: The Chequers Affair
August 16, 1990: Eastern Europe: Après Le Déluge, Nous
June 14, 1990: Ten Thoughts on the New Europe
April 26, 1990: East Germany: The Solution
February 15, 1990: Eastern Europe: The Year of Truth
January 18, 1990: The Revolution of the Magic Lantern
December 21, 1989: The German Revolution
August 17, 1989: Revolution in Hungary and Poland
June 15, 1989: Revolution: The Springtime of Two Nations
December 22, 1988: The Prague Advertisement
October 27, 1988: Reform or Revolution?
October 13, 1988: The Opposition
September 29, 1988: The Empire in Decay
December 3, 1987: Remembering the Uprising
September 24, 1987: Churchill's Papers (letter)
June 11, 1987: From World War to Cold War
Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War 1945–46 by Hugh Thomas
British Policy Towards the Soviet Union During the Second World War by Martin Kitchen
The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and the Origins of the Cold War by Fraser J. Harbutt
May 7, 1987: In the Churchill Museum
Winston S. Churchill: Vol. VII, Road to Victory, 1941–1945 by Martin Gilbert
January 29, 1987: 'The Life of Death': An Exchange
October 9, 1986: Does Central Europe Exist?
The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe by Václav Havel et al., introduction by Steven Lukes, edited by John Keane
The Anatomy of a Reticence by Václav Havel
Antipolitics: An Essay by George Konrád, Translated from the Hungarian by Richard E. Allen
Letters from Prison and Other Essays by Adam Michnik, translated by Maya Latynski, foreword by Czeslaw Milosz, introduction by Jonathan Schell
Takie czasy…Rzecz o kompromisie by Adam Michnik
KOR: A History of the Workers' Defense Committee in Poland, 1976–1981 by Jan Józef Lipski, translated by Olga Amsterdamska, by Gene M. Moore
May 29, 1986: Crackdown in Hungary (letter)
May 8, 1986: 'Shoah' and Poland (letter)
March 13, 1986: An Event in Hungary (letter)
December 19, 1985: The Life of Death
Heimat A film by Edgar Reitz
Shoah A film by Claude Lanzmann
Shoah: An Oral History of the Holocaust the complete text of the film by Claude Lanzmann, preface by Simone de Beauvoir
When Light Pierced the Darkness: Righteous Christians and the Polish Jews by Nechama Tec
December 5, 1985: The Hungarian Lesson
June 27, 1985: Poland: The Uses of Adversity
May 9, 1985: East of the West (letter)
January 31, 1985: Which Way Will Germany Go?
Wo Deutschland Liegt: Eine Ortsbestimmung by Günter Gaus
Die Fernen Nachbarn: Erfahrungen in der DDR by Klaus Bölling
From Red to Green: Interviews with New Left Review by Rudolf Bahro, translated by Gus Fagan, by Richard Hurst
Cassandra by Christa Wolf, translated by Jan van Heurck
Die Deutsche Geschichte Geht Weiter by Richard von Weizsäcker
Fighting for Hope by Petra Kelly, introduction by Heinrich Böll, translated by Marianne Howarth
Judith by Rolf Hochhuth
Schwarzenberg by Stefan Heym
The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider, translated by Leigh Hafrey
November 22, 1984: Back Yards
Books by Timothy Garton Ash
History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s (1999)
The File: a Personal History (1997)
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993)
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (1990)
The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989)
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1984)