Garton Ash, Timothy, Europe, Eastern - History - 1945-1989. "Along with the historian's long view, Gatton Ash has an eye and an ear for the telling detail. The magic lantern : the revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague. In this book - now with a new Afterword by the author - Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose after-effects will resonate for years to come. Timothy Garton Ash was witness to some of the key moments in the collapse of communism, including the start of the Velvet Revolution in a back room of the. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections - in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory - or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power. The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague Timothy Garton Ash Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, History - 176 pages 0 Reviews. And the quality of the writing places it clearly in the category of good literature." - George Kennan Yet the sense of historic dimension.is never lost. " own involvement in these events, intellectual and emotional, is of such intensity that he can om the inside as well as from the outside.
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