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Jul 1, 1997 · Timothy Garton Ash. 3.83. 1,228 ratings123 reviews. When Timothy Garton Ash graduated from Oxford in 1978, he went to live in Berlin, ostensibly to research and write about Nazism. But once there, he gradually immersed himself in a study of the repressive political culture of East Germany. As if to return the favor, that culture--in the form of ...
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In the files, writes Ash, is ``a vast anthology of human weakness,'' reflecting less deliberate dishonesty ``than our almost infinite capacity for self-deception.'' Sensitive, subtle, and illuminating, as a fine historian explores those infinitely complicated choices made by human beings confronted by the issue of collaboration or resistance.
Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. He has written about the former Communist regimes of ...
Jun 15, 2022 · The file : a personal history by Garton Ash, Timothy. Publication date 1998 Topics Garton Ash, Timothy, ... Full catalog record
The File: A Personal History. By Timothy Garton Ash (New York: Random House, 1997. 256pp.). “So what should I do? Jump out of the window?”. Frau R. responds, when confronted by Timothy Garton Ash with reports that she made about him to the Stasi in 1980. (143) Fifteen years later, when the GDR no longer exists, he has [End Page 251 ...
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Jul 21, 2011 · The File – Timothy Garton Ash. July 21, 2011 by Claire (The Captive Reader) I finished reading The File by Timothy Garton Ash yesterday and just had to talk about it immediately. It is a fascinating, bravely personal examination of the secretive, fearful culture of the GDR and the way it shaped the lives of those touched by the Stasi, be they ...
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The File: A Personal History. The File. : In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe, he returned to look at his Stasi file which bore the code-name ...
