Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash CMG, (born 12 July 1955 in London) is a British historian and author. His focus is the late modern and contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe. He has specifically worked on the Communist dictatorships of that region, the origins of the Revolutions of 1989 in that region and their immediate aftermath, i.e. the transformation of the former Eastern Bloc states from their totalitarian past towards their integration into the Western capitalist order.

Education

Ash went to school at Sherborne. He earned an M.A. in modern history from Exeter College at the University of Oxford. For graduate studies, he was at St. Antony's College, Oxford and then in the still divided Berlin at the Free University in West Berlin and the Humboldt University in East Berlin in the mid-1980s.

Und Willst Du Nicht Mein Bruder Sein...Die DDR Heute (Rowohlt, 1981) ISBN 3-499-33015-6
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980–82 (Scribner, 1984) ISBN 0-684-18114-2
The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (Random House, 1989) ISBN 0-394-57573-3
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (Random House, 1990) ISBN 0-394-58884-3
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (Random House, 1993) ISBN 0-394-55711-5
The File: A Personal History (Random House, 1997) ISBN 0-679-45574-4
History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s (Allen Lane, 1999) ISBN 0-7139-9323-5
Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (Random House, 2004) ISBN 1-4000-6219-5
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name (Atlantic Books, 2009) ISBN 1848870892

^ "Eredoctoraten voor Maria Nowak, Timothy Garton Ash en Claudio Magris" (Dutch), Dagkrant Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2010-12-22, Retrieved on 2010-11-29.