The Uses Of Adversity: Essays On The Fate Of Central Europe
ISBN:
9780140283921 (0140283927)
Edition language: English
Still reading this one, but I'm almost done with it.Next to excellent collection of essays on written in the early 1980s by a then young - and very beardy - Timothy Garton Ash. On the whole 'The Uses of Adversity' gives a very interesting portrait of a rather abstract concept such as 'Central Europe...
I have only read this time the parts pertaining to Hungary. I bought this book when it came out. Then, 1989, it was "Current Affairs". Now it is part of History. The rate of historical change during the 20th Century is astounding.