Post-war Europe
E-book, Czech
Post-war Europe
Europe After the Second World War Through the Eyes of Historian Tony Judt
In 1945, Europe was on its knees. A significant portion of European countries had been severely affected by the ravages of war, mass murder, aerial bombardment and devastation. Virtually the entire eastern half of the continent fell under Soviet domination, with one totalitarian regime replacing another. Tony Judt tells the story of Europe's resurrection from the ruins, the story of the decline and fall of Soviet communism and the rise of the European Community and the European Union, the story of the end of European empires and Europe's difficult and changing relationship with its wartime past and the two superpowers that defined it, Russia and America. The author clearly and concisely captures both the overall development of Europe and the contrasting experiences of Europeans in the East and West. The book, brought up to the time of the Iraq War and the election of Pope Benedict XVI, offers us an understanding of the meaning of modern European history and identity, of what Europe is and what it was. It can rightly be described as a unique work on the subject of Europe in our time.
Tony Judt
Tony Judt (1948–2010), a British historian and essayist, studied at the universities of Cambridge and Paris. He lectured at prestigious British and American universities, and was a professor at New York University and director of its Remarque Institute. After 1989, he devoted himself intensively to the changes in Eastern Europe, but he had already established contact with Eastern European intellectuals in the 1980s and learned Czech, among other languages. He is the author of dozens of articles and fifteen books; his essay Ill Fares the Land was published in Czech in 2011. The publishing house PROSTOR has published his books Thinking the Twentieth Century: A Conversation with Timothy Snyder (2013, 2021), The Memory Chalet (2016), When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995–2010 (2018), Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century (2019) and A Grand Illusion? An Essay on Europe (2020). His monumental Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 is now in its fourth edition from PROSTOR, and its fifth overall in Czech.
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