Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Hardcover

A history of contemporary Europe includes coverage of thirty-four countries and draws on a wide range of newly available sources to document the region's economic development, culture, politics, and more, in a volume complemented by maps, photos, and cartoon illustrations. 40,000 first printing.

Tony Judt was born in London in 1948. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley, and New York University, where he is currently the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and that he founded in 1995. The author or editor of eleven books, he is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, The New York Times, and many other journals in Europe and the United States.