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The file : a personal history

Timothy Garton Ash (Author)
A real-life thriller in which the author traces and confronts the German friends and acquaintances who informed on him, and the officers who hired them. Behind Stasi reports of suspicious meetings we discover the love affairs, friendships, and formative intellectual encounters that actually occurred. And behind a baffling web of lies, half-truths, and forgotten stories we find a forty-year-old man spying on his younger self
Print Book, English, 1997
First U.S. edition View all formats and editions
Random House, New York, 1997