- History, Nonfiction, Europe, history, 1945-, Europe, history
The first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering 34 countries across 60 years, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture--high and low--into a single grand narrative. Every country has its chance to play the lead, and although the big themes are handled--including the cold war, the love/hate relationship with America, cultural and economic malaise and rebirth, and the myth and reality of unification--none of them is allowed to overshadow the rich pageant that is the whole.--From publisher description.
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- Author
- Tony Judt
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 915
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Blackstone Audio, Inc., Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, heb, Polish, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781594200656
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“I first decided to write this book while changing trains at the Westbahnhof, Vienna's main railway terminus.”
Tony Robert Judt (2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was an English historian, author, essayist and professor who specialised in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University and director of NYU's Remarque Institute. He was director of the New York Institute for the Humanities from 1993 to 1996. Judt was a frequent contributor to *The New York Review of Books.* He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Judt)
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