POSTWAR

World War II may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict's epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 an interim age, Judt examines what happened on each side of the Iron Curtain, with the West nervously in ching forward while the East endured the peace of the prison yard until the fall of Communism in 1989 signaled their chance to progr ess. Though he proposes no grand, overarching theory of the postwar period, Judt's massive work covers the broad strokes as well as the fine ...[Leer más]