of the history of Europe since 1945, and especially over the last 50 years. This is an unusual genre: history illustrated by memoir and reportage. Garton Ash draws on his extensive notes of events witnessed, places visited and historymakers encountered (from Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev to Vacl

target date than 2013. And that end will itself, as Havel and Mandela=discovered, only be a beginning. <1=> <=pan style="font-size: 18pt;">Timothy Garton Ash, a contributing writer t= Opinion, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of Eu=opean studies at Oxford University. <1=> <1=>