Europe in Our Time

Eminent historian Walter Laqueur's "Europe in Our Time" provides an incisive chronicle of the continent's political, economic, social, and cultural evolution from the origins of the Cold War to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Including a detailed country-by-country analysis of Europe's most recent history--the reunification of Germany, the Thatcherite "revolution" in Britain, France since the death of de Gaulle, Spain after Franco, the "de-Sovietization" of Eastern Europe, and the breakup of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia--Laquer's study is a grand and vastly readable summation of an epoch that boldly looks forward to the next century.