Ebook: The file : a personal history
Author: Garton Ash Timothy
- Tags: Deception -- Political aspects -- Germany (East), Germany (East) -- Foreign public opinion British, Great Britain -- Foreign public opinion East German, Garton Ash Timothy, Journalists -- Great Britain -- Biography, Germany (East) -- Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, Internal security -- Germany (East), Secret service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical, HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany, Deception -- Political aspects, Internal security, Journalists, Public o
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- City: New York, Germany (East), Great Britain, Great Britain., Germany (East)
- Language: English
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In 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton Ash--by then famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe--returned. This time he had come to look at a file compiled by the Stasi, the East German secret police, with the assistance of dozens of informers. It contained Read more...