*** TONY JUDT: Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Penguin Books Ltd (80 Strand London WC2R ORL, UK). 2006, 933 pp. ISBN 1-59420-065-3.
This ambitious book won the European Book Prize on 10 December 2008, the second such prize awarded by the Esprit d'Europe association. The prize-giving ceremony, chaired by Jacques Delors, took place at the European Parliament and was attended by the presidents of the European Parliament and the European Commission. The jury of a dozen journalists from...