Judt T. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Penguin Books, 2006. — 960 p.The definitive history of postwar Europe for our time. Tony Judt's Postwar is cause for celebration. The product of a decade's labor, it is sweeping narrative history in the grand tradition, a deeply learned and absorbing chronicle of Europe since the fall of Berlin, weaving East and West, North and South, into a majestic sixty-year tapestry studded with brilliant new insight.Post-War: 1945-1953The Legacy of War
Retribution
The Rehabilitation of Europe
The Impossible Settlement
The Coming of the Cold War
Into the Whirlwind
Culture Wars
Coda - The End of Old EuropeProsperity and Its Discontents: 1953-1971The Politics of Stability
Lost Illusions
The Age of Affluence
Postscript: - A Tale of Two Economies
The Social Democratic Moment
The Spectre of Revolution
The End of the AffairRecessional: 1971-1989Diminished Expectations
Politics in a New Key
A Time of Transition
The New Realism
The Power of the Powerless
The End of the Old OrderAfter the Fall: 1989-2005A Fissile Continent
The Reckoning
The Old Europe—and the New
The Varieties of Europe
Europe as a Way of LifePhoto Credits
Suggestions for Further Reading