{"product_id":"homelands-timothy-garton-ash","title":"Homelands (Timothy Garton Ash)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2023**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eA moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author of \u003ci\u003eFree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing from the people who lived it,\u003ci\u003e Homelands\u003c\/i\u003e explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid experiences: from his father's memories of D-Day and his own surveillance at the hands of the Stasi to interviewing Albanian guerrillas in the mountains of Kosovo and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomelands\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a living, breathing history of a period of unprecedented progress, a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong and an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The right book for Europe, at the right time' Timothy Snyder, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Tyranny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating' Dominic Sandbrook, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... defiantly hopeful' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Garton Ash \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of European Studies Emeritus at the University of Oxford and a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. He has lived and breathed European politics and culture for over fifty years, witnessing some of the most dramatic scenes in its history, meeting many of its key players and analysing how life has evolved for ordinary Europeans across the breadth of the continent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has won many prizes for his eleven previous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe File\u003c\/i\u003e, his riveting autobiographical account of investigating the contents of his Stasi file after the fall of East Germany. His last book, \u003ci\u003eHomelands: A Personal History of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e, has appeared in twenty-three European languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 384 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65792262144349,"sku":"K097126032","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9712603200001A.jpg?v=1788382163","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/homelands-timothy-garton-ash","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}