Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

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Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no mote and the democracies of the European Union reach as far as the borders of Russia itself. Postwar tells the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here. Running right up to the Iraq War and the election of Benedict XVI, Postwar makes sense of Europe's recent history and identity, of what Europe is and has been. It is nothing less than a masterpiece. Tony Judt was born in London in 1948. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley and New York University, where he is currently University Professor and Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995. The author or editor of twelve books, he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Republic, and the New York Times. Postwar : A History of Europe since 1945 was one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2005, the winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2007 he was awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize and in 2009 he was winner of a Special Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Orwell Prize.

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