Download A Macat Analysis of Tony Judt's Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 AudioBook Free
London-born, Cambridge-trained historian Tony Judt points out how postwar Western history reflects the drawn-out effects of World Conflict II - you start with Nazi Germany's surrender in 1945 and closing with the collapse of the Soviet Union (1989-91). No historian before had written in such information about recent Western record, using those two events as bookends. Nor possessed anyone gone to such lengths to dispute that Eastern and American Europe - large countries and small - possessed a key characteristic in keeping. That characteristic, Judt argues, is the "long shadow" cast by World Conflict II. Though Eastern Europe was completely communist and European Europe largely democratic, with some countries, such as Portugal, dictatorships, all were aiming to digest the events of 1939-45. Judt also ties Western integration - the try to unite Europe's different countries under one authority - to sociable democracy, a typically Western system that intervened on the market and provided strong safeness nets for the poor.
