An assessment of how 20th century world history was created, and what it means today, from the author of }Postwar{. By looking at a range of subjects, Judt reminds the reader of how important our own past is, and how it can change the future Argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. It examines the tragedy of twentieth-century Europe by way of thought-provoking pieces on Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, Albert Camus and Henry Kissinger amongst others.
