蒂莫西·加顿艾什（Timothy Garton Ash）：当代西方最重要的政治写作者之一，牛津大学历史学教授、英国《卫报》专栏作家、中东欧当代史专家，著有《波兰革命》、《档案：一部个人史》、《事实即颠覆：无以名之的十年的政治写作》等。

1992 年，柏林圍牆夷為平地，東西德融為一體的時候，他走進現在負責保管與整理前東德秘密情治機構，國家安全部檔案的高克機構，詢問他們有沒有他的檔案？高克的答覆是肯定的，不但有，而且厚達 325 頁，檔案名稱就叫做：羅密歐。 「羅密歐」勾起了賈頓─艾許塵封 15 年的私秘回憶，1978 年，為了蒐集牛津大學博士論文的材料，他曾經隻身在東西柏林停留了共計將近 18 個月。當年那個腳上套著牛津大頭皮鞋，身上穿著蘇格蘭呢夾克的青年學者──他自嘲為雄心萬丈，偏偏「頭腦混亂」──萬萬沒有料到，自己已經置身於以「抓耙子」為全民運動，人類有史以來，規模最大，動員最徹底的前東德國家安全部監控之下。不論他走到哪裡，他觀察、省思周遭人事景物，同時間，成群線民也不動聲色地記錄、匯報這個心思單純的大男孩的一言一行……。 賈頓─艾許一面翻閱國安部在檔案裡指示的「作戰計劃」，心中...(展开全部)

In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived—and died—during the Black Death (1345–50 AD), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly into those tumultuous years and ...(展开全部)

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history. It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore...(展开全部)

Katharine Graham's father was a multi-millionaire who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post. Her husband Phil Graham was a brilliant and charismatic man whose plunge into manic depression and eventual suicide is recounted movingly and charitably in this book. Above all, Katharine Graham tells her own story - the contra...(展开全部)

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a book composed of both personal memoir and history. It is the story of Graham's parents: the multimillionaire father who left private business and government service to buy and restore...(展开全部)

Katharine Graham's father was a multi-millionaire who left private business and government service to buy and restore the down-and-out Washington Post. Her husband Phil Graham was a brilliant and charismatic man whose plunge into manic depression and eventual suicide is recounted movingly and charitably in this book. Above all, Katharine Graham tells her own story - the contra...(展开全部)

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies Winner of the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize • A Financial Times Best Book of 2023 “An irresistibly well-written book, fluent, witty, and intelligent.”—Neal Acherson, New York Review of Books Timothy Garton Ash, Europe’s “histor...(展开全部)

Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies Timothy Garton Ash, Europe’s “historian of the present,” has been “breathing Europe” for the last half century. In Homelands he embarks on a journey around the postwar continent drawing on his own notes from many great event...(展开全部)

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...(展开全部)