A collection of stirring and poignant personal essays from the leading historian.
These essays recall everything from his youthful love of a particular London bus route to a roadtrip across America, and each one also evokes a foray into history..
In 2008 Judt learned that he was suffering from a disease that would eventually trap his mind in a declining and immobile body, so he revisited the past in an effort to keep himself sane.
A collection of stirring and poignant personal essays from the leading historian