4/09/2006
Garton Ash: File
Timothy Garton Ash: The File: A Personal History
Paperback: 227 pages
Publisher: Flamingo 1997
ISBN:0006388477
Garton Ash's account of Central Europe's Cold War spy game is as informative as it is exciting. Ash, historian of the present, confronts his assumed friends and acquaintances after finding out about his Stasi file. Codenamed "Romeo", Ash's secret service file consists of 300 + pages.
The File offers a good view to the workings of a totalitarian communist regime and the distorted mentality behind the soviet empire.
Timothy Garton Ash: The File: A Personal HistoryPaperback: 227 pages
Publisher: Flamingo 1997
ISBN:0006388477
Garton Ash's account of Central Europe's Cold War spy game is as informative as it is exciting. Ash, historian of the present, confronts his assumed friends and acquaintances after finding out about his Stasi file. Codenamed "Romeo", Ash's secret service file consists of 300 + pages.
The File offers a good view to the workings of a totalitarian communist regime and the distorted mentality behind the soviet empire.
"Laughing one moment, crying the next, that's how it is in love. In love and in revolution."Second Opinion: Erkki Tuomioja / (in Finnish) ¶ 4/09/2006 04:05:00 ip.
