Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
The magisterial history of European reconstruction from the smoldering devastation of 1945 through the Cold War, the collapse of Soviet communism, and the emergence of the European Union.
Read Time: ~12.3 hr
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark (2012)
About this book
A masterwork of diplomatic history detailing how the great European powers, blind to the catastrophic consequences of their actions, stumbled into the devastating abyss of World War I in the summer of 1914.
Setting / LocationSarajevo, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, London, Paris
Story EraEuropean History
Protagonist / CoreEuropean Diplomats & Monarchs
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