{"product_id":"homelands-a-personal-history-of-europe-9780300276725","title":"Homelands: A Personal History of Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eDrawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe's triumphs and tragedies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An irresistibly well-written book, fluent, witty, and intelligent.\"--Neal Acherson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Timothy Garton Ash, Europe's \"historian of the present,\" has been \"breathing Europe\" for the last half century. In \u003ci\u003eHomelands\u003c\/i\u003e he embarks on a journey in time and space around the postwar continent, drawing on his own notes from many great events, giving vivid firsthand accounts of its leading actors, revisiting the places where its history was made, and recalling its triumphs and tragedies through their imprint on the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Garton Ash offers an account of events as seen from the ground--history illustrated by memoir. He describes how Europe emerged from wartime devastation to rebuild, to triumph with the fall of the Berlin Wall, to democratize and unite. And then to falter. It is a singular history of a period of unprecedented progress along with a clear-eyed account of how so much went wrong, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. From the pen of someone who, in spite of Brexit, emphatically describes himself as an English European, this is both a \u003ci\u003etour d'horizon\u003c\/i\u003e and a \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300276725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384","brand":"Timothy Garton Ash","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43766832660661,"sku":"9780300276725","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7189e602-9269-4615-9eae-a9057a6c4dbd.jpg?v=1710819134","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/homelands-a-personal-history-of-europe-9780300276725","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}