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Postwar: A History Of Europe Since 1945 By Tony Judt

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Cynthia Morris IB History Mr. Savala July 16, 2015 Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt disclosed information on a level that focused on the devastating impact of post-WWII on civilians in Western and Eastern Europe and the systematic ties of cultures globally. He began by introducing significant figures of death tolls ranging from civilian to military loss, prewar and postwar. He contends the idea of “the physical and moral condition of the citizenry” being a common interest for both the victors and the vanquished, one of the main reasons why communist and fascist regimes arose to better their own nations, why programs such as the Marshall Plan and other European recovery undertakings were created to either protect their own …show more content…

This series of precise collective historical data compiled in Judt’s book provided readers an in-depth analysis of the overall impression and repercussions that resided in Europe for the decades after the Second World War. I recommend this book to anyone who would be interested in grasping the rounded concept of the long-term effects of WWII. Better yet, for those who are over the age of 40, every page turned evokes the older reader what they had once felt, hoped for, immersed in or fled from. The author does not narrow his focus on specific political parties which may be a weakness during his writing of this book. Not paying much debate on the specific politics would stray from a personal impact it had on towns or areas of countries, a concept that the reader would expect from Tony Judt. While he avoids giving too much attention to

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