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'Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past.' --The New York Times

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--who was 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 that bore the code-name 'Romeo.' The file had been compiled by the Stasi, the East German secret police, with the assistance of dozens of informers. And it contained a meticulous record of Garton Ash's earlier life in Berlin.

In this memoir, Garton Ash describes what it was like to rediscover his younger self through the eyes of the Stasi, and then to go on to confront those who actually informed against him to the secret police. Moving from document to remembrance, from the offices of British intelligence to the living rooms of retired Stasi off

The File a Personal History

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'Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past.' --The New York... Read more

    Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 9/29/1998 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780679777854, 978-0679777854
    ISBN10: 0679777857

    Number of Pages: 272

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    'Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past.' --The New York Times

    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--who was 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 that bore the code-name 'Romeo.' The file had been compiled by the Stasi, the East German secret police, with the assistance of dozens of informers. And it contained a meticulous record of Garton Ash's earlier life in Berlin.

    In this memoir, Garton Ash describes what it was like to rediscover his younger self through the eyes of the Stasi, and then to go on to confront those who actually informed against him to the secret police. Moving from document to remembrance, from the offices of British intelligence to the living rooms of retired Stasi off

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