Timothy Garton Ash

In an account of Cold War espionage and treachery, the author describes his discovery that the East German secret police had compiled a secret file on his activities and of his efforts to track down the truth about that file

A Personal History

The File

Laura Mauler

For a book revolving around the Stasi it is surprisingly boring.

Emma Bickford

Interesting historical read and well written. When memory, history, and emotions collide, it can be hard to piece together what actually happened, but this job does a good job at sorting through all the available evidence to figure out what happened when the author was a young student.

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central Europe, he returned to look at his Stasi file which bore the code-name 'Romeo'.

The File A Personal History

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