Neal Ascherson

Neal Ascherson

Charles Neal Ascherson (born October 5, 1932 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish journalist and writer.

Ascherson went to school in Eton and studied history at King's College (Cambridge) . The historian Eric Hobsbawm perhaps described him as "the most brilliant student I ever had. I didn't really teach him much, I just let him do it. "

After graduation, Ascherson wrote first for the Manchester Guardian and later for The Scotsman (1959–1960), The Observer (1960–1990) and The Independent on Sunday (1990–1998). He wrote scripts for the documentary series The World at War (1973–1974) and the TV series The Cold War (1998). He is also a regular contributor to the London Review of Books .

Ascherson is an expert on Poland and the Eastern Bloc .

Ascherson has been visiting professor at the Department of Archeology at University College London since 2008 .

Books

• The King Incorporated 1963, ISBN 1-86207-290-6 .
• The Polish August: the self-limiting revolution 1981, ISBN 0-670-56305-6 .
• The Book of Lech Wałęsa 1982, ISBN 0-671-45684-9 .
• The Spanish Civil War ( Granada Television serial script, 1983)
• The Nazi Legacy 1984, ISBN 0-03-069303-9 . with Magnus Linklater and Isabel Hilton
• The Struggles For Poland 1987, ISBN 0-7181-2812-5 .
• Games With Shadows 1988, ISBN 0-09-173019-8 .
• Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilization and Barbarism 1995, ISBN 0-8090-3043-8 . , German Black Sea , Berlin 1996.
• Stone Voices: the search for Scotland 2002, ISBN 0-8090-8491-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nicholas Wroe "Romantic nationalist" , The Guardian , 12 April 2003
2. ↑ z. B. Hanging on to Mutti: Neal Ascherson reports from Germany
3. ↑ UK writer Neal Ascherson discusses NATO, EU on Prague visit . Radio Prague. 2004. Retrieved May 13, 2004.
4. ^ Neal Ascherson - fascinating memories of the Soviet invasion and much more . Radio Prague. 2004. Retrieved June 8, 2004.
5. ↑ Emeritus and Honorary Staff in 2007/2008 . In: Our Staff . UCL Institute of Archeology. 2008. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 25, 2008. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Neal Ascherson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Neal Ascherson resume
• Neal Ascherson in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Guardian on Neal Ascherson (04/2003)
• Neal Ascherson - Guardian
• Neal Ascherson - Prospect
• with Maggie Ronayne: Opposition to Turkey's Ilisu Dam rises again ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), chinadialogue, November 27, 2007