A valuable contribution to the historiography of the post-war period.
H-Net
... the book's innovative take on the postwar period ... is thus a worthy companion to Tony Judt's magisterial Postwar (2005). Stone's emphasis on the centrality of memory politics presents a new way of thinking about the connections between disparate phenomena, along with a new set of ... Read moretools for explaining Europe's troubled present
Central European History
Dan Stone has written the first serious history since Tony Judt of the continent after 1945
Robert Gerwarth, Irish Times
Dan Stone,[is] one of the finest historians of Europe working in Britain today
Arne Westad, BBC History Magazine
...have no fear. Dan Stone is far too fine a historian to see the past as unlinear and neatly packaged.
Arne Westad, BBC History Magazine
... a good historian must, on the basis of detailed knowledge and sound judgement, define and present the important issues, leaving "a lot of things" aside. The past six decades of Europe's history, full of complexities and transformations, imperatively need this sort of treatment, and they get it in Dan Stone's illuminating and stimulating book ... One of the book's admirable features is Stone's ability to devote serious attention, decade by decade, to both Eastern and Western Europe.
Times Higher Education
A well-researched and academic volume.
Birmingham Jewish Recorder
Compellingly written.
Internationale Spectator
absorbing and provocative
John Connelly, American Historical Review
this is a provocative, well-argued, and very readable synthesis that surely will inspire more debate on how to make sense of the second half of Europes twentieth century.
Frank Biess, European History Quarterly
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