Charles Neal Ascherson est un journaliste et écrivain écossais. Il est réputé pour ses profondes capacités d'analyse et sa perspective incisive sur les événements socio-politiques. Son style d'écriture se caractérise par une attention méticuleuse à l'exactitude factuelle et une capacité remarquable à interpréter des événements complexes.
Through many hitherto unseen images the story of Berlin in the 20th century is told. Documenting the changes in the city from the viewpoint of the activities of its at work, leisure, home, protest and politics, this book provides a fascinating portrait of a city which is again in the process of reinventing itself.
The Guinea Pigs is a chilling fable about dehumanization and alienation representing Vaculik's vision of the menace of Soviet domination in the wake of the 1969 invasion. Written in 1970, it is a sweeping condemnation of totalitarianism, embedded in a rich, imaginative, highly experimental narrative. In the words of the New York Review of Books it is "one of the major works of literature produced in postwar Europe."
THE BLACK SEA is at once a homage to an ocean and its shores and an amazingly readable meditation on Eurasian history from the earliest times to the present. It evokes the culture, history and politics of the volatile region which surrounds the Black Sea. Ascherson recalls the world of Herodotus and Aeschylus; Ovid's place of exile on what is now the coast of Romania; the decline and fall of Byzantium; the mysterious fastness of the Chrisian Goths; the Tatar Khanates; the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, and the centuries of war between Ottoman and Russian Empires around the Black Sea; and in our own century the terrors of Stalinism and its fascist enemy, striving for mastery of these endlessly colourful and complex shores. This is a story of Greeks, Scythians, Samatians, Huns, Goths, Turks, Russian and Poles. This is the sea where Europe ended. It is the place where 'barbarism' was born.
Provides the background and an analysis of recent events in Poland, including the militancy of the working class, the formation of Solidarity, the realignment of political forces, and the reaction of the Soviet Union
Mit vielen Dokumentarfotos versehener Abriss zur polnischen Geschichte; Schwerpunkt: 20. Jahrhundert.