Free speech

By Timothy Garton Ash

"Never in human history was there such a chance for freedom of expression. If we have Internet access, any one of us can publish almost anything we like and potentially reach an audience of million...

The Magic Lantern

By Timothy Garton Ash

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. Whether covering Poland’s first f...

The File

By Timothy Garton Ash

"Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past." --The New York TimesIn 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that...

Polska Rewolucja Solidarnosc

By Timothy Garton Ash

Free World

By Timothy Garton Ash

“We, the free, face a daunting opportunity. Previous generations could only dream of a free world. Now we can begin to make it.” In his welcome alternative to the rampant pessimism abou...

Free Speech

By Timothy Garton Ash

In Europe's Name

By Timothy Garton Ash

For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. In this brilliantly nuanced book, one of our most respected authorities on Central...

History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s

By Timothy Garton Ash

The File: A Personal History

By Timothy Garton Ash

Berlin: Wall's End

By Timothy Garton Ash

A selection from The Magic Lantern, Timothy Garton Ash’s classic first-person history of the Revolution of ’89 and the end of the Cold War—an on-the-ground glimpse of the fall of...