‘Tremendously enjoyable … thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times<\/i>
‘Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide … panoramic … defiantly hopeful’ Financial Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands<\/i><\/b> explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.<\/b><\/p>\n
Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid experiences: from his father’s memories of D-Day and his own surveillance at the hands of the Stasi to interviewing Albanian guerrillas in the mountains of Kosovo and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents.<\/p>\n
Homelands<\/i> is at once a living, breathing history of a period of unprecedented progress, a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong and an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved.<\/p>\n
‘The right book for Europe, at the right time’ Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny<\/i><\/b>
‘A moving love letter to Europe’ Lea Ypi, author of Free<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drawing on half a century of travel and experience, ‘Homelands’ tells the story of Europe in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries – how, having emerged from its wartime hell in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and united to come close to the ideal of a Europe ‘whole, free and at peace’. And then faltered. Humane, expert and deeply felt, ‘Homelands’ is full of encounters, conversations and anecdote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[75],"product_tag":[1562,334,349],"class_list":{"0":"post-102819","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-history","6":"product_tag-european-history","7":"product_tag-reportage-collected-journalism","8":"product_tag-social-cultural-history","9":"pa_book_author-garton-ash-timothy","10":"pa_cover-paperback","11":"pa_dewey-940-5092-edition23","12":"pa_imprint-vintage","13":"pa_language-english","14":"pa_pages-8281","15":"pa_publisher-vintage","16":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","18":"first","19":"onbackorder","20":"taxable","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n