The File - A Personal History

Jacket acrushed at top. Spine leaning but contents in book tight.

In 1992 after the Berlin wall came down, Timothy Garton Ash walked into the ministry which now looks after the records of the Stasi, the East German secret police, and asked if there was a file on him. There was - one marked Romeo . This book is the story of what was in the buff-coloured binder, and of the avenues - personal, political and historical - down which it led Garton Ash...