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Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far as the borders of Russia itself. ostwar tells the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here, a story that unfolds under the permanent shadow of the war itself. It tells of Europe's recovery from the devastation; of the decline and fall of Soviet Communism and the rise of the EC and EU; of the end of Europe's empires; and of Europe's uneasy and changing relationships with the memory of the war and with the two great powers that bracket it, Russian and America. udt presents the history of the German car industry in the light of the British; relates what happened in Paris in 1968 to the events of that year in Prague and in Italy; and illuminates Salazar's fascist dictatorship in Portugal not only in the light of Franco's Spain but of Ceausescu's Romania. With clarity and economy, he tells of developments across the continent as a whole, as well as of the contrasting expe

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PublisherVintage Publishing

ISBN-139780712665643

eBay Product ID (ePID)88450036

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Number of Pages960 Pages

Publication NamePostwar:A History of Europe since 1945

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory

Publication Year2007

TypeTextbook

AuthorJudt, Tony

FormatPaperback

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Item Height216 mm

Item Weight1178 g

Item Width136 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorJudt, Tony

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by parich726
29 Jan, 2023
Excellent and fascinating look at the last 70 years of European history
An excellent and interesting analysis of European History and hence the World in the last 70 years
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