The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
by Timothy Garton Ash
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published
May 1st 1999
by Vintage
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Paperback, 169 pages
isbn
0679740481
(isbn13: 9780679740483)
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Anyone, but especially Lucy
This guy was right in the thick of it - in Vaclav Havel's underground pub, at Imre Nagy's reburial, Solidarity's triumph at the ballot box, the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I love the would-be epitaph the author gave Eastern European Communism:
1949-1989
Nothing in his life,
Became him like the leaving it
I love the would-be epitaph the author gave Eastern European Communism:
1949-1989
Nothing in his life,
Became him like the leaving it
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Read in August, 2006
Collected / published essays regarding the collapse of the Iron Curtain in the Summer of 1989 as recorded by Garton Ash in four capitals, each with four distinct but interwoven relationships with Moscow and the Warsaw Pact. The book is both revealing and inspiring.
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I had to read this for a Modern European History class in college and it was absolutely wonderful. A must-read for anyone who wishes to learn about the Eastern European revolutions in 1989.
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I loved Ash's book "Free World". This one's about witnessing the revolutions of '89 in Eastern Europe. I'm in.
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Read in January, 2003
Really cool Memoir. I think about it often!
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