by Tony Judt
Judt delivers a sweeping single-volume history of Europe from the rubble of 1945 through the fall of communism to the anxious EU of the early 2000s, weaving together politics, economics, and culture across thirty-four nations. He argues that the long postwar peace rested on a willed forgetting of wartime atrocities, and that Europe's memory politics would determine its future stability.
In this collection, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 references 3 other books.
It draws on The Guns of August, The Lessons of History and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
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Picks up where Tuchman's Guns of August left off, tracing how the twentieth-century cycle of European war she diagnosed finally broke only after 1945
Enacts Durant's Lessons of History on a continental scale, using sixty years of European experience to draw lessons about welfare states, empires, and the wages of forgetting
Parallels Goodwin's Team of Rivals methodology of political biography-as-history, applying it to statesmen from De Gaulle to Adenauer to Thatcher who rebuilt Europe
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