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Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first... read more
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- Josef Stalin: Add a description of this character.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Adolf Hitler
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Francois Mitterrand
- Konrad Adenauer
- Vaclav Havel
- Kohl
- Charles De Gaulle
- Imre Nagy
- Tito
- Margaret Thatcher
- Marshall
- Boris Yeltsin
- Gomulka
- Klaus
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Harry S. Truman
- Adam Michnik
- Benito Mussolini
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Salazar
- Raymond Aron
- Kadar
- John F. Kennedy
- Rajk
- Lenin
- Harold Macmillan
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Kostov
- Haider
- Brandt
- Tony Blair
- Schuman
- Arthur Koestler
- Winston Churchill
- Gottwald
- Albert Camus
Setting & Locations edit
- Eastern Europe
- France
- West Germany
- Britain
- Italy
- Poland
- Moscow
- Hungary
- Soviet Union
- Czechoslovakia
- Yugoslavia
- Paris
- Romania
- Spain
- Berlin
- Austria
- London
- Belgium
- Ukraine
- Prague
- Russia
- Washington
- Greece
- America
- Portugal
- Netherlands
- Bulgaria
- Brussels
- Sweden
- Bonn
- Federal Republic
- Budapest
- United States
- Norway
- Denmark
- England
- Warsaw
- Bosnia
- East Germany
- Western Europe
- Belgrade
- Ireland
- Turkey
- Serbia
- Scandinavia
First Sentence edit
I first decided to write this book while changing trains at the Westbahnhof, Vienna's main railway terminus.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 1594200653
Page Count: 947
Publisher: Penguin Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 1594200653
Page Count: 947
Awards edit
- Samuel Johnson Prize (Finalist, 2006, Shortlist)
- Pulitzer Prize (Finalist, 2006: General Non-fiction)
- European Book Prize (2008)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 940.55
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