Tony Judt's 'Postwar' title wins European Book Prize

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In 1945 Europe was at its lowest moments. Much of the continent was ravaged by war, mass murder, bombing, and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were beginning to fall under Soviet control to exchange one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union no longer exists and European democracies reach as far as the Russian border.

Postwar tells the rich and complex story of the road we have traveled from then to now, a story that proceeds under the permanent shadow of war: Europe's recovery from ruin, the decline and fall of Soviet communism, the rise of the Common Market and the European Union, the end of the European empires, the difficult and changing relationship of the Old Continent with the memory of the war and with the two great powers that flank it: Russia and the United States.

 

 (Taken from Taurus Publishing)

 

See also:

 

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Postguerra/Tony/Judt/gana/Premio/Libro/Europeo/elpepicul/20081211elpepicul_4/Tes

http://www.letraslibres.com/index.php?art=11718

http://www.taurus.santillana.es/upload/ficheros/noticia_tony_judt.pdf

If you are interested in reading the titles available in the library about Tony Judt, you can check their availability at IIE library catalog.

Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945 / Tony Judt. — London : William Heinemann, 2005. — XV, 878 p. ; 24cm ISBN 0-434-00749-8

D1051.J83 2005

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