Sanford S. Elberg Lecture: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
Timothy Garton Ash is a writer and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of "Und willst Du nicht Bruder sein..." Die DDR heute (1981), a book published in West Germany about what was then still East Germany; The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1983), which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989), for which he was awarded the Prix Europeen de l'Essai; and We the People: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (1990; U.S. Edition: The Magic Lantern), which has now appeared in fifteen languages. His latest book is In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993).
After reading Modern History at Oxford, his research into the German resistance to Hitler took him to Berlin, where he lived, in both the western and eastern halves of the divided city, for several years. From there he traveled wid