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More than any other technical design or social institution, the railway stands for modernity. In this brilliant essay the historian Tony Judt describes the singular contribution made by railways to the development of our shared way of life. From the trans
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Postwar by Tony Judt, read by Ralph Cosham.Tracing the story of post-war Europe and its changing role in the world, Judt's magnificent history of the continent of our times investigates the political, soc
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interes
The definitive history of Europes rebirth. From the ruins of war to the rise of the European Union, Postwar tells the sweeping story of Europes transformation in the 20th century. Historian Tony Judt draws on a lifetime of scholarship to chart how nations
A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century that feels all the more potent and important in todays political climate. Edited and introdu
Featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer , Ta-Nehisi Coates. "We are in for a fight . . . and in that fight Tony's work will be needed. This volume, in particular, will be needed." -- Ta-
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award One of the New York Times ' Ten Best Books of the Year Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of t
Tony Judt considers the question: How likely is a united Europe? "I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the Euro
Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the