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Postwar - A History of Europe Since 1945 (Hardcover)
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Postwar - A History of Europe Since 1945 (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Tony Judt decided to write Postwar in 1989, the year the collapse
of the Soviet Union provided European history with a rare example
of a clearly-signposted 'end of an era'. It's scarcely surprising,
then, that the great virtue of Judt's book is the clarity and the
breadth of its account of postwar Europe. His book coalesces around
one central theme: the idea that the whole of the history of this
period can be explained as an unravelling of the consequences of
World War II. A bold claim, but Judt's exceptional ability to
create strong, well-structured, inclusive arguments allows him to
pull it off convincingly. Judt's work is also a fine example of
creative thinking, in that he excels in connecting things together
in new and interesting ways. This virtue extends from his unusual
ability to combine the best elements of the Anglo-American and the
French historiographical traditions - the latter informing his
strong interest in the importance of cultural history - to his
unwillingness to allow himself to be constrained by historical
category and ultimately to his linguistic abilities. Postwar is,
above all, a triumph of integration, something that is only made
possible by its author's flair for creating strong, persuasive
arguments.
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