Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Judt, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200653 ISBN 13: 9781594200656

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2005

A history of contemporary Europe includes coverage of thirty-four countries and draws on a wide range of newly available sources to document the region's economic development, culture, politics, and more, in a volume complemented by maps, photos, and cartoon illustrations. 40,000 first printing.

Review:

'Stupendous in scale, trenchant in style and handsomely produced... epic'
-- Independent

'Impressive...[He] writes with extraordinary authority...[It] has to be admired' -- Wall Street Journal

'Judt’s clear-eyed judgment and mastery of detail are at their absolute best... This magnificently rich and readable book' -- Sunday Times

'Rich and immensely detailed' -- New York Times

A book that has the pace of a thriller and the scope of an encyclopaedia...a very considerable achievement -- New York Review of Books

Hard to imagine how a better history of the emergence of Europe from the ashes of 1945 could be written -- Sir Ian Kershaw, author of the prize-winning international bestseller, Hitler

Judt’s clear-eyed judgment and mastery of detail are at their absolute best... This magnificently rich and readable book’ -- Sunday Times

Tony Judt brilliantly demonstrates an acute sensitivity to and regard for the true Europe. -- Lord (David) Owen

we are treated to learned disquisitions on the Beatles, youth culture, soccer, film,decline of French intellectuals, architecture,urban planning... -- New York Sun

From the Publisher:

A magisterial history of post-war Europe, political, social and cultural, in the tradition of Norman Davies' Europe: A History and Niall Ferguson's Empire.