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The Uses of Adversity [Paperback]

Timothy Garton Ash (Author)

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (28 Oct 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0140283927
ISBN-13: 978-0140283921
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,658,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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During the historic changes in Central Europe in the 1980s, the author travelled behind the iron curtain, talking to dissidents and ordinary people and discovering the subterranean movements that were to erupt in 1989.

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