Timothy Garton Ash is a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of 'Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein'. Die DDR heute, a book published in West Germany about was was still then East germany; The Polish Revolution- Solidarity, which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Uses of Adversity- Essays on the Fate of Central Eutrope, which gaine him the Prix Europeen de l'Essai; and, most recently, We the People- the Revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Berlin, Budapest & Prague which has now appeared in fourteen languages.
The right book for Europe, at the right time ... the perfect book for the present * Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny * A moving love letter to Europe, Homelands merges memoir, political analysis and social criticism to reflect on the future of a continent still haunted by its past * Lea Ypi, author of Free * We know there are Germans, Italians, Spaniards and Poles - but are there Europeans? Yes, at least one: Timothy Garton Ash. Homelands is the brilliant, captivating story of how he became one. * Mark Lilla, author of The Once and Future Liberal * This book, from a man who had a front-row seat to much of the history he describes, draws on his experiences and those of his friends to bring events to vivid life * M. E. Sarotte, author of Not One Inch * Garton Ash deftly combines scholarship, journalistic experience, and personal observations and stories in Homelands ... delightful and thought-provoking * Robert B. Zoellick, author of America in the World *