The File: A Personal History by Timothy Garton Ash

The File: A Personal History

Timothy Garton Ash

256 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir challenging informative slow-paced

Description

When Timothy Garton Ash graduated from Oxford in 1978, he went to live in Berlin, ostensibly to research and write about Nazism. But once there, he gradually immersed himself in a study of the repressive political culture of East Germany. As if to...

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Moods

informative 85%
reflective 71%
dark 42%
challenging 28%
tense 28%
adventurous 14%
emotional 14%
sad 14%

Pace

medium 71%
slow 28%

Average rating

3.69

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