Homelands - Timothy Garton Ash - 2023
A Personal History of Europe

By: Timothy Garton Ash
Narrated by: John Sackville
Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-03-23
Categories: History
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo

Publisher's Summary:

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Homelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, reportage and memoir by our greatest writer about European affairs.

Drawing on half a century of interviews 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. It is also highly personal: Timothy Garton Ash has spent a lifetime studying and thinking about Europe and this book is full of life itself, from his father's experience on D-Day, to his teenage French exchange, to interviewing Polish dockers, Albanian guerillas and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents in the UK, Europe, and the US.

Homelands is both a singular history of a period of unprecedented progress and a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong, all the way from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. It culminates in an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved.

©2023 Timothy Garton Ash (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Reviews

A moving love letter to Europe, Homelands merges memoir, political analysis and social criticism to reflect on the future of a continent still haunted by its past. (Lea Ypi, author of Free)

The right book for Europe, at the right time ... the perfect book for the present. (Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny)

We know there are Germans, Italians, Spaniards and Poles - but are there Europeans? Yes, at least one: Timothy Garton Ash. Homelands is the brilliant, captivating story of how he became one. (Mark Lilla, author of The Once and Future Liberal)

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