Timothy Garton Ash is a renowned historian and political scientist, a leading expert on European studies, a professor at Oxford University, and a recipient of the Charlemagne Prize for his contribution to European integration. Published in Russian for the first time.
His book, EUROPE: The Long Road from 1945 to the Present Day, is an accurate and vivid overview of the main stages of modern European history: the aftermath of the war, the division between East and West, the drive toward unification, the creation and successes of the EU, and the crises of the 21st century.
Timothy Garton Ash is a unique world-class expert. He has devoted his entire life to studying Europe. He has been a direct witness or active participant in most of the important events of the last fifty years and is closely acquainted with key figures in world history: Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, Helmut Kohl, George Bush – these are just a few names from this extensive list.
Sunday Times: "An incredibly compelling book: thoughtful, honest, open, self-critical. The author tells the story of Europe at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries—how, emerging from the hell of war in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt itself, liberated and united, to come closer to the ideal of a “united, free, and peaceful” Europe. And now it is once again going through difficult times."
So, on November 29, Timothy Garton Ash will be in Berlin, and that's very lucky indeed!
November 29, Saturday, 3:30 p.m. (guests arrive at 3:00 p.m.)
Address: Haus für Poesie Knaackstr. 97 (entrance from the courtyard of Kulturbrauerei) 10435 Berlin
Admission is free.
Registration by link.
You can buy the book “EUROPE: The Long Road from 1945 to the Present Day” here
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