Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Updated with a New Chapter

In Homelands, Lea Ypi offers a moving love letter to Europe, exploring how it recovered from World War II and faltered. Timothy Garton Ash, a renowned writer on Europe, offers a vivid account of the period, including his own experiences and interviews with various individuals. The book is a call to citizens to understand and defend what they have collectively achieved.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024, A Financial Times Best Book of 2023, and a moving love letter to Europe, Homelands by Lea Ypi explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two, only to falter later on. With a lifetime of study of Europe under his belt, Timothy Garton Ash offers a deeply felt book filled with vivid experiences, ranging from his father's memories of D-Day to his own surveillance at the hands of the Stasi to interviewing Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo and angry teenagers in Paris. Homelands is a living, breathing history of a period of unprecedented progress, a clear-eyed account of how so much went wrong, and an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what they have collectively achieved.

Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, calls Homelands "tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating," while Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, praises it as "a wiser guide ... defiantly hopeful." The Financial Times also praises the book, stating that "readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... defiantly hopeful."

Weight: 270g
Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529925074