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Postwar
Tony Judt, William Heinemann
“A masterpiece of historical
scholarship.... Magisterial.” Independent
From Stalin to Sartre, from Milosevic to Monty Python, from
Berlusconi and baby-boomers to Bardot and Beckham, Postwar tells
the histories of modern Europe, cultural, political, economic
and social, from the end of WWII to the enlargement of the
EU and the election of Benedict XVI. Tony Judt has drawn
on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe
to create a rich account of the continent’s recent
past. Postwar integrates international relations,
domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development
and culture – high and low – into a single narrative.
Tony Judt was born in London in 1948. He was educated at
Cambridge and the École Normale Supérieure,
Paris and has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley, and
New York University, where he is currently the Erich Maria
Remarque Professor of European Studies and Director of the
Remarque Institute, which he founded in 1995. The author
of eleven books, he is a frequent contributor to the New
York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement,
the New Republic, the New York Times and
many other journals in Europe and the US.
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