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by Tony Judt
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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.
by Christopher Clark
Clark traces Prussia from a scattered Baltic territory to the militarized core of a unified Germany and finally to its dissolution by Allied decree in 1947. He argues against the familiar teleology that casts Prussia as the inevitable root of Nazism, presenting instead a contingent state whose Enlightenment reforms, religious pluralism, and bureaucratic innovation were as central to its identity as its armies.