WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY TIMOTHY GARTON-ASH, this influential and acclaimed history of postwar Europe includes Germany and Poland, as well as Western and Eastern Europe. Chosen as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times.

Europe in 1945 was exhausted. Large parts of the continent had been devastated by wars, mass killings, bombings, and chaos. Extensive areas of Eastern Europe were under Soviet control, exchanging one tyranny for another. Today, the Soviet Union is gone, and the democracies of the European Union reach up to the borders of Russia. Postwar narrates the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here, demystifying Europe's recent history and identity.

"It's 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... Overall, a true masterpiece" - Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler.

"[Judt] dares to explain the entirety of Europe from 1945 with an unbroken narrative... This is history with a human face, as well as with intellectual power" - Norman Davies, Guardian.

"Remarkable... Judt has written the standard reference work on the history of postwar Europe. It will provoke productive discussion, but I find it hard to imagine that it will ever be surpassed" - Misha Glenny, Irish Times.

Pages: 960, Dimensions: 13x13cm