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In a chilling account of Cold War espionage and treachery, the author of The Uses of Adversity describes his discovery that the East German secret police had compiled a secret file on his activities and of his efforts to track down the truth about that file. 25,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker. Tour.
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Timothy Garton Ash is a Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. Celebrated for his essays in <b>The New York Review of Books</b>, he is the author of <b>The Polish Revolution</b>, which won the Somerset Maugham Award; <b>The Uses of Adversity</b>, which won the Prix Européen de l'Essai; <b>In Europe's Name</b>; and <b>The Magic Lantern</b>, his eyewitness account of the Central European revolutions of 1989, which has been translated into fourteen languages. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two sons.
Timothy Garton Ash is a Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford.
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aluable document for our time, bravely and beautifully written. A chilling portrait of treachery and compromise that will not let me go." <br>--John le Carré<br><br>In 1978, fresh out of Oxford, Timothy Garton Ash set out for Berlin to see what he could learn from the divided city about freedom and despotism. As he moved from west to east--from Berlin glamour to Berlin danger--the East German secret police, the so-called Stasi, was compiling a secret file on his activities, monitoring his Berlin days and nights and tracking his growing involvement with the Solidarity movement in Poland.<br><br>Fifteen years later, with the Wall torn down and Berlin now unified, Garton Ash visited Stasi headquarters to find his file. The thick dossier he was given forms the basis for this real-life thriller in which he traces and confronts the German friends and acquaintances who informed on him, and the officers who hired them. Behind Stasi reports of suspicious meetings we discover
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