REAPPRAISALS/ REFLECTIONS ON THE FORGOTTEN TWENTIETH

A provocative, timely assessment of how 20th century world history was created, and what it means today, by the author of POSTWARAs Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an age of forgetting. Todays world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know wh ere we came from, and the results of this burgeoning ignorance are proving calamitous, with the clear prospect of worse to come.