Postwar

Most impressive… Postwar, Tony Judt’s magnificent history of Europe after The Second World War, covers vast tracts of ground with extraordinary skill, weaving together the stories of West and East in a single, compelling narrative * Evening Standard, ‘Books of the Year’ *
Masterly and exhilarating… Judt has a fine eye for telling detail… This is a splendid book to which no review can do proper justice * Spectator *
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
A superb work of synthesis, analysis and reflection * Times Literary Supplement, ‘Books of the Year’ *
With Postwar… Judt moves up into the ranks of the grand simplificateurs. He dares to expound the sum total of Europe since 1945 in a seamless narrative… This is history-writing with a human face, as well as with brainpower… It is most unlikely that Judt’s achievement will be superseded soon * Guardian *
Judt’s brilliant study of Europe after the Second World War is unlikely to be surpassed… Tony Judt has written the standard reference work on European post-war history * Irish Times *
A masterly survey of how today’s Europe rose from the ashes and exhaustion of 1945 * New Statesman, ‘Books of the Year’ *

Tony Judt was educated at King’s College, Cambridge and the cole Normale Superieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University; in addition to Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995. The author or editor of fourteen books, Professor Judt was 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. Professor Judt is the author of Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals- Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century, and Postwar- A History of Europe Since 1945, which 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, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in August, 2010 at the age of sixty-two.

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