HISTORY OF THE PRESENT: ESSAYS, SKETCHES AND DESPATCHES FROM EUROPE IN THE 1990S

Author: Timothy Garton Ash

Publisher: Allen Lane, Penguin Press

Year published: 1999

Pagination: 440pp endpaper maps.

Condition: Good in grazed d/w

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An extraordinary decade in which the old order collapsed, along with the Berlin Wall. Looking at a history of Central Europe after the collapse of soviet control, the author joins the East Germans in their decisive vote for unification, visiting the former leader in prison, accompanies the Poles on their roller-coaster ride to democracy, travels through the killing fields of Kosovo and more.