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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 integrated narrative, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. Tony Judt has drawn on forty years of reading and writing about modern Europe to create a fully rounded, deep account of the continent’s recent past. The recording integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture–high and low–into a single grand narrative. Every country has its chance to play the lead, and although the big themes are superbly handled–inclu

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