The Book Prize Index

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

Tony Judt

The first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering 34 countries across 60 years, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture--high and low--into a single grand narrative. Every country has its chance to play the lead, and although the big themes are handled--including the cold war, the love/hate relationship with America, cultural and economic malaise and rebirth, and the myth and reality of unification--none of them is allowed to overshadow the rich pageant that is the whole.--From publisher description.

HistoryWorld History · high confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryOpen Library: Europe, history, 1945- -> BiographyOpen Library: Europe -- History -- 1945- -> World HistoryWorld War IIGender & FeminismEurope & Russia

Award History

0 wins · 3 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionMajor2006FinalistSecondary source
Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionMajor2006FinalistSecondary source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History2005FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Europe55%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    It offers a unified, continent-spanning history of contemporary Europe since 1945 that integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture into a single grand narrative.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    52 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 58%.