The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
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The Magic Lanternis one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections — in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory — or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power.
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In this book — now with a new Afterword by the author — Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose after-effects will resonate for years to come.
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