{"product_id":"homelands-a-personal-history-of-europe","title":"Homelands: A Personal History of Europe","description":"Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies\n\nWinner of the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize • A Financial Times Best Book of 2023\n\n“An irresistibly well-written book, fluent, witty, and intelligent.”—Neal Acherson, New York Review of Books\n\nTimothy Garton Ash, Europe’s “historian of the present,” has been “breathing Europe” for the last half century. In Homelands he embarks on a journey in time and space around the postwar continent, drawing on his own notes from many great events, giving vivid firsthand accounts of its leading actors, revisiting the places where its history was made, and recalling its triumphs and tragedies through their imprint on the present.\n\nGarton Ash offers an account of events as seen from the ground—history illustrated by memoir. He describes how Europe emerged from wartime devastation to rebuild, to triumph with the fall of the Berlin Wall, to democratize and unite. And then to falter. It is a singular history of a period of unprecedented progress along with a clear-eyed account of how so much went wrong, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. From the pen of someone who, in spite of Brexit, emphatically describes himself as an English European, this is both a tour d’horizon and a tour de force.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0300257074\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0300257074.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Garton Ash, Timothy\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41491987923002,"sku":"DBV.0300257074.G","price":4.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0300257074-0.jpg?v=1782669997","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/homelands-a-personal-history-of-europe","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}