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==Education==
Garton Ash was born to John Garton Ash (1919–2014) and Lorna Judith Freke. His father was educated at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] and was involved in finance, as well as being a [[Royal Artillery]] officer in the [[British Army]] during the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10971430/John-Garton-Ash-obituary.html |date=16 July 2014 |title=John Garton Ash - obituary|newspaper=The Telegraph|location=London|access-date=12 January 2017}}</ref> Garton Ash was educated at [[St Edmund's School, Hindhead]], [[Surrey]],<ref name="sain_St.E" /> before going on to [[Sherborne School]], a well-known [[public school (United Kingdom)|public school]] in [[Dorset]] in [[South West England]], followed by [[Exeter College, Oxford]] where he studied [[Modern History]].
For post-graduate study, he went to [[St Antony's College, Oxford]], and then, in the still divided [[Berlin Soviet Zone|Berlin]], the [[Free University of Berlin|Free University]] in [[West Berlin]] and the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Humboldt University]] in [[East Berlin]]. During his studies in East Berlin, he was under surveillance from the [[Stasi]], which served as the basis for his 1997 book ''The File''.<ref name="nybooks">{{cite journal |last=Ash |first=Timothy |author-link=Timothy Garton Ash |date=2007-05-31 |title=The Stasi on Our Minds |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/may/31/the-stasi-on-our-minds/ |journal=The New York Review of Books |access-date=2014-11-17}}</ref> Garton Ash cut a suspect figure to the Stasi, who regarded him as a "bourgeois-liberal" and potential British spy.<ref name="ind">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/memoirs-of-an-inadvertent-spy-1195468.html |first=Michael |last=Glover |date=2 September 1998 |title=Memoirs of an inadvertent spy|newspaper=The Independent|access-date=12 January 2017}}</ref> Although he denies being or having been a British intelligence operative, Garton Ash described himself as a "soldier behind enemy lines" and described the [[German Democratic Republic]] as a "very nasty regime indeed."<ref name="ind"/>
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*''The File: A Personal History'' (Random House, 1997) {{ISBN|0-679-45574-4}}
*''In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent'' (Random House, 1993) {{ISBN|0-394-55711-5}}
*''The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989
*''The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe'' (Random House, 1989) {{ISBN|0-394-57573-3}}
*''The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980–82'' (Scribner, 1984) {{ISBN|0-684-18114-2}}
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