A review by paubre
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

4.0

I read this as an audiobook and I don't think I would have gotten through it if I hadn't done it that way. Not because the book is bad, but it is dense, and huge. The audiobook is 43 hours long, and it took me over 2 years to listen to all of it. Historical analysis rather than history, Judt's point of view has given me new insights into recent European history. Towards the end it does become a bit painful that Judt didn't know what would happen next, but the reader does. I guess that must always be the case with history that ends in the present. I'm sure Judt would have loved to write an addendum at the end of 2018.