Berlin: Wall's End
nov. 2014 · Solgt af Vintage
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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 the Berlin Wall.
“In the beginning was the Wall itself.” So writes matchless chronicler and observer Timothy Garton Ash on the strange life and stranger death of the Wall that divided two worlds. Garton Ash takes the reader with him as he walks through the Wall and across no-man’s land in early November of 1989, where as recently as that February a man attempting to cross had been shot dead. But November 9 ushers in a new world. Garton Ash introduces us to the East Berliners lining up for the “greeting money” offered at banks; the newfound wanderers looking for the ferry to England; and the chaotic, intoxicating political atmosphere sweeping through the reunited city. This is a vivid and enduring picture of a defining moment in history, when a wall came tumbling down.
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“In the beginning was the Wall itself.” So writes matchless chronicler and observer Timothy Garton Ash on the strange life and stranger death of the Wall that divided two worlds. Garton Ash takes the reader with him as he walks through the Wall and across no-man’s land in early November of 1989, where as recently as that February a man attempting to cross had been shot dead. But November 9 ushers in a new world. Garton Ash introduces us to the East Berliners lining up for the “greeting money” offered at banks; the newfound wanderers looking for the ferry to England; and the chaotic, intoxicating political atmosphere sweeping through the reunited city. This is a vivid and enduring picture of a defining moment in history, when a wall came tumbling down.
An eBook short.
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 the Berlin Wall.
“In the beginning was the Wall itself.” So writes matchless chronicler and observer Timothy Garton ...
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Timothy Garton Ash is the author of The File, In Europe’s Name, Facts Are Subversive, and three volumes of “history of the present”: The Polish Revolution (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Uses of Adversity, and The Magic Lantern, his personal account of the revolutions of 1989, which has now appeared in sixteen languages. His essays, including regular contributions to the New York Review of Books and the Guardian, have been recognized with the George Orwell Prize. He is a Fellow of Saint Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of The File, In Europe’s Name, Facts Are Subversive, and three volumes of “history of the present”: The Polish Revolution (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Uses of Adversity, and The Magic Lantern, his personal account of the revolutions of 1989, which h...
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