Postwar — Tony Judt

Judt's history of Europe from 1945 to the early 2000s is the definitive single-volume account of the continent's recovery, division, and reunification. The book is structured around the idea that postwar Europe was built on deliberate forgetting — of collaboration, of complicity, of the specificity of the Holocaust — and that the gradual recovery of that memory has been the defining political and cultural process of the second half of the century.