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P O S T W AR A History of E u r o pe S i n ce 1945 T O NY J U DT U.S. $39.95 THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF POSTWAR EUROPE FOR OUR TIME Tony Judt's Postwar is cause for celebration. The product of a decade's labor, it is sweeping narrative history in the grand tradition, a deeply learned and absorbing chronicle of Europe since the fall of Berlin, weaving East and West, North and South, into a majestic sixty-year tapestry studded with brilliant new insight. Tony Judt has drawn on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe to craft this account of the continent's remarkable journey— tumultuous and uneven—out of the devastation of history's most savage war. While his range is vast, and seemingly no country, no vital theme, no crucial indi­ vidual, no watershed event fails to get its moment in the narrative sun, Postwar is the very opposite of the dutiful plod. Ajiimated and propelled by the celebrated force of its author's point of view, it is never less than brilliant. Witty, opinionated and full of fresh and surprising stories and asides, visually rich and rewarding, with useful and provocative maps, photos and cartoons, Postwar is a rare joy for lovers of history and lovers of Europe alike, a show from which one exits, dazzled, into the present moment, with much mental furniture rearranged, if not smashed into kindling, and all of Europe indelibly in mind. WITH 9 MAPS AND 77 PHOTOGRAPHS 1005 T O NY JUDTwasbomin 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 dedi­ cated 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. Jacket design by Dean Nicastro Jacket photograph © Werner BischojyMagnum Photos Author photograph © John R. Rifkin Yh~ THE PENGUIN PRESS e — :— A member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Jengutn 375 Hudson Street, New York, N.Y. 10014 Press www.penguin.com Advance Praise for P O S T W AR "Tony Judt is one of our most dazzling public intellectuals, as thoughtful as he is knowledgeable. Postwar is like having an extended personal seminar on Europe's journey back both from the ashes of World War Two and the cruel, totalitarian hold of Soviet communism." —DAVID HALBERSTAM "Professor Judt knows more about contemporary Europe than almost any Ameri­ can (or any European, for that matter). In Postwar, he brings that formidable knowledge to bear on the mspiring story of Europe's transformation from lethal division and devastating war to a peaceful, prosperous pancontinental union. His history of how the iron curtain crumbled is definitive.'' —T. R. R E I D, author of The United States of Europe "Truly superb. It is 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." —IAN KERSHAW "An epically important subject has, to the benefit of us all, found the author it deserves. Tony Judt, long one of the wisest heads and clearest voices around, has produced a magisterial history and a solid foundation for clear thinking about the future. Postwar is meticulous in its scholarship, compelling in the story it tells and passionate in its judgments. A true masterpiece." —STROBE TALBOTT, President, Brookings Institution ISBN 1-59*20-065-3 International boundary Soviet-Sector boundary in Germany Leningrad 0 UNITED KINGDOM UNION OF SOVIET Edinburgh REPUBLIC OF IRELAND SOCIALIST REPUBLICS ® NETHERLANDS ©® SLAUAXRELMABNODU RG i A\ j» Brussels,< J «Cologne r SSEOCVTIOETR \ .r&t > GERMANY • Kiev © SWITZERLAND \r2) •Frankfurt \_<V*—- ^ • Kharkov X3) WESTERN \Prague • V* » Cracow ^> ALLIES x C^ fp / SECTORS \ Munich /^^v. f FRANCE <f N Venna* ^•Bratislava^/-^""0N ^i/'y^i.' 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An Essay on Europe Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 Marxism and the French Left: Studies on Labour and Politics in France 1830-1982 Resistance and Revolution in Mediterranean Europe 1939-1948 (edited by Tony Judt) Socialism in Provence 1871-1914: A Study in the Origins of the Modern French Left La reconstruction du Parti Socialiste 1921-1926

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Tony Judt's Postwar makes one lament the overuse of the word ''groundbreaking.'' It is an unprecedented accomplishment: the first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering thirty-four countries across sixty years in a single
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