Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

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The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture–high and low–into a single grand narrative. Every country has its chance to play the lead, and although the big themes are superbly handled–inclu Tony Judt’s Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word “groundbreaking.” It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years in a single integrated narrative, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. Tony Judt has drawn on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe to create a fully rounded, deep account of the continent’s recent past.

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