Tony Judt

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. Meer

Running right up to the Iraq war and the election of Benedict XVI, 'Postwar' makes sense of Europe's recent history and identity, of what Europe is and has been. Meer

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Argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. It examines the tragedy of twentieth-century Europe by way of thought-provoking pieces on Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, Albert Camus and Henry Kissinger amongst others. Meer