In a glittering kaleidoscope of essays, Ash records the dramatic history of the last decade of the 20th century in Europe. A participant as well as a chronicler, he joins East Germans in their decision to vote for unification and visits their former leader, Erich Honecker, in prison. He also takes readers to the streets in Belgrade and travels through the killing fields of Kosovo.
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In a glittering kaleidoscope of essays, Ash records the dramatic history of the last decade of the 20th century in Europe. A participant as well as a chronicler, he joins East Germans in their decision to vote for unification and visits their former leader, Erich Honecker, in prison. He also takes readers to the streets in Belgrade and travels through the killing fields of Kosovo.
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Add this copy of History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and to cart. $4.51, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Random House (NY).
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Hardcover in good to very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket wrapped in protective cellophane. Ex library.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Ex-Library First Printing. Hardcover Ex-Lib Book and Jacket in Good Condition. Library markings only defect-they are minimal and neat. A history of the present, a contemporary historian writing primarily as a witness to the events he is treating, as an outside as well as an inside witness--on Bosnia, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Vaclav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev, etc. The quality of writing makes it also good literature. Clean, tight and solid volume, edges rubbed. Internals very clean and free of any markings except a small pale lib stamp on the ffep, and a circular lib sticked on the rear paste-down. Stamp on top edge of text block. Jacket very clean, unclipped, no edgewear. 450 pages. 8vo. 2000, Random House, New York.
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As New/As New. 0375503536 405pp including index Chronicles the 1990s through a collection of essays, sketches, and ispatches written as history was being made.
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