(P/B) POSTWAR

Παρουσίαση

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 more 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. (From the publisher)

"Truly superb - a magnificent achievement. It is hard to imagine how a better -and more readable- history of the emergence of today's Europe from the ashes of 1945 could ever be written; I can't think of another work on the latter half of the 20th century that comes close to matching it... All in all, a real masterpiece" (Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler)
"Masterly and exhilarating... Judt has a fine eye for telling detail... This is a splendid book to which no review can do proper justice. So many subjects are adroitly dealt with" (Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Spectator)

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Preface & acknowledgments
Introduction
Post - War: 1945 - 1953
The legacy of war
Retribution
The rehabilitation of Europe
The impossible settlement
The coming of the cold war
Into the whirlwind
Culture wars
The end of old Europe
Prosperity and its discontents: 1953 - 1971
The politics of stability
Lost illusions
The age of affluence
The social democratic moment
The spectre of revolution
The end of the affair
Recessional: 1971 - 1989
Diminished expectations
Politics in a new key
A time of transition
The new realism
The power of the powerless
The end of the old order
After the fall: 1989 - 2005
A fissile continent
The reckoning
The old Europe - and the new
The varieties of Europe
Europe as a way of life
EPILOGUE
From the house of the dead: an essay on modern European memory
Suggestions for further reading
Index