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  • A History of Europe Since 1945
  • By: Tony Judt
  • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
  • Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (149 ratings)
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Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
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Summary

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Postwar by Tony Judt, read by Ralph Cosham.

Tracing the story of postwar Europe and its changing role in the world, Judt's magnificent history of the continent of our times investigates the political, social and cultural history of Europe from the wreckage of postwar Europe to the expansion of the EU into the former Soviet empire. Judt's stress is on the continent as a whole, from Greece to Norway, from Portugal to Russia.

This, uniquely, is a history that pays due attention to both Western and Eastern Europe, to cultural and social developments as to political and diplomatic events. Throughout Judt shows how politics, society, culture and popular culture influenced each other. A masterly and definitive history of our continent in a crucial period of its history, Europe in our time.

©2017 Tony Judt (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks
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Monumental

Vast in scope and detail. It behoves Europeans to remember well our troubled past, for it is all to easy to forget. This book offers little comfort, instead it forensically dissects the different currents of shared European postwar experience, and reveals starkly the abyss upon which our civilisation is built. A magnificent work of history.

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Extraordinaire

Extremly learned and facinating. Some will probably argue that it contains too much of jewish suffering/extermination, but i think it's proper when thinking about the abyss nazism created. It gives interpretational depth also to other forms of totalitarian ideologies.

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An astonishing book and performance

I can't recommend this book highly enough. it covers all the most important and interesting political, social, economic and intellectual developments of Europe's postwar period. I had a reasonable foundation in the history of the period, but still found every chapter fascinating. It's comfortably the best history book I've read.

The audio performance is also very engaging and the author is very easy to listen to even up to 45 hours.

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An appalling recording

Awful recording.

Obviously the narrator struggled with quite a lot of pronunciations, however rather than re-recording at the time with the correct pronunciation they have overdubbed using a low quality microphone later.

In my opinion it's not listenable and should be removed from Audible.

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Narrator issues

The narrator is not good unfortunately. Not bad, but his voice lulls me to sleep. It's a pity really...

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Comprehensive and constantly enlightening

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Full of insights and challenges from an eastern European perspective. Small grips about pronunciation from the author, lack of chapter headings, sentence structure not conducive to understanding when heard first time, issues with syncing across several devices. But still a must read.

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Excellent reading of a superb book

One of the most impressive history books ever written. First read it over a decade ago, and despite all the changes in Europe since then (the eurozone crisis, Brexit, Orban, Merkel, Macron, and more), it remains astonishingly up to date, as so much of this was anticipated, and followed from prior trends.

I do wish Judt we're still here to continue his astonishingly good work, though. An update to this would be fascinating.

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Tremendous Overview

This was a fantastic listen. Comprehensive overview of this entire period. As a younger listener I learned a lot.

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The end is terrible

Until chapter 27 very good, thereafter terrible. He really missed the point in what is wrong in modern Europe.

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Had to abandon

Unfortunately I abandoned this 8 chapters in because I just couldn't face another 33 hours listening to the narrator. The voice is strangely very old fashioned and monotone. It's a shame because the content was very interesting indeed. I don't like being so rude about the choice of narrator, especially since it's such a subjective thing, but for me it ruined this book and I couldn't face listening any further.

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