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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
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 Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague'' (Random House, 1990) {{ISBN|0-394-58884-3}}
*''The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe'' (Random House, 1989) {{ISBN|0-394-57573-3}}
*''The Polish Revolution: Solidarity,
*''Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein ... Die DDR heute'' (Rowohlt, 1981) {{ISBN|3-499-33015-6}}
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==Notes==
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<ref name="Ferguson2005">{{Cite magazine | title = Timothy Garton Ash | last = Ferguson | first = Niall |author-link=Niall Ferguson | magazine = TIME.com | date = 18 April 2005 | access-date = 2016-04-23 | url = http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1972656_1972712_1974244,00.html }}</ref>
<ref name="radi_timo">{{Cite web | title = timothy garton ash son dakika gelişmeleri ve haberleri Radikal'de! | work = Radikal | access-date = 2016-04-23 | url = http://www.radikal.com.tr/arama/yazar=timothy_garton_ash&siralama=tarihe_gore_azalan/ | language = tr }}</ref>
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