A Ripple of the Polonaise
Perry Anderson: Work of the Nineties, 25 November 1999
History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the Nineties
by Timothy Garton Ash.
Allen Lane, 441 pp., £20, June 1999,0 7139 9323 5 Show More
by Timothy Garton Ash.
Allen Lane, 441 pp., £20, June 1999,
“... New York Review of Books: Neal Ascherson and Timothy Garton Ash (spurs won in Eastern Europe) and Ian Buruma (in East Asia). United by common liberal convictions, the trio are otherwise quite distinct. Garton Ash, a generation younger than Ascherson, followed his path from Germany to Poland as lands of primary reportage. In 1982-83, both wrote ... ”