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The Plague
The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and …
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
A history of contemporary Europe includes coverage of thirty-four countries and draws on a wide range of newly available sources to document the region's economic development, …
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through …
Ill Fares the Land
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith Something has gone profoundly amiss in our public affairs over the past …
When the Facts Change
The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together …
Memory Chalet
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from …
Ill Fares The Land
'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver GoldsmithSomething is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years …
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
"Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright." --The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the greatest single collection of thinking on the political, diplomatic, social, and cultural …
The Burden of Responsibility : Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the twentieth century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political …
A Grand Illusion?
Tony Judt considers the question: How likely is a united Europe? “I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually …