FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year Europe in 1945 was drained.
Postwar tells the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here, demystifying Europe\'s recent history and identity, of what the continent is and has been.`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...
All in all, a real masterpiece\' Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler.
Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far as the borders of Russia itself.
Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another.
Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos.
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year Europe in 1945 was drained
