Roller-Coaster by Ian Kershaw - ISBN: 9780141980447
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Europe’s tumultuous journey: peace, prosperity, division, and uncertain future.

Roller-Coaster

Europe, 1950-2017

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  • Paperback

    704 pages

  • Release Date

    19 November 2019

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Summary

The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present.

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone ‘to Hell and back’, the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its lo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141980447
ISBN-10:0141980443
Author:Ian Kershaw
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:704
Release Date:19 November 2019
Weight:529g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 30mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

An expert and meticulous look at the events that shaped the continent… it should have a prominent place on the shelf of anybody, professional or layperson, who wants to make sense of present-day Europe – Josef Joffe * Financial Times *This is a remarkable pan-European survey, and one can only admire the vast range of scholarship lightly worn – Robert Tombs * The Times *A supreme achievement, wearing its immense learning lightly and written with page-turning energy * Literary Review *In synthesizing and evaluating an enormous body of scholarship, not only on Europe, East and West, but also on the wider world and the globalisation processes that have so deeply affected European history, Ian Kershaw has produced a historical masterpiece. * Times Literary Supplement *A formidable historian of detail * Telegraph *

About The Author

Ian Kershaw

Sir Ian Kershaw is one of the UK’s most distinguished historians. His most famous books include Hitler, Fateful Choices, and The End. The first volume in his history of modern Europe, To Hell and Back, was described by the Observer as ‘superb … likely to become a classic’ and by Harold Evans in the New York Times as ‘chilling epic-size history … should be required reading’. He lives in Manchester.

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