Introduction
Part One: Aftermath
1. German Midnight: The Division of Europe, 1945
2. Building Jerusalem: The Labour Government in Britain,
1945–1951
3. Democracy Embattled: France, Italy, and West Germany,
1944–1949
4. Behind the Iron Curtain: Communism in Power, 1945-1953
Part Two: Boom
5. The Miraculous Fifties
6. Winds of Change: The End of the European Empires
7. Hope Betrayed: The Khrushchev Years, 1953–1964
8. The Gaullist Temptation: Western Europe in the 1960s
Part Three: Rebels
9. Europe and Its Discontents: 1968 and After
10. Southern Renaissance: The Transition to Democracy in Spain,
Portugal, and Greece
11. Cracks in the Wall: Eastern Europe, 1968-1981
12. Rule, Britannia: The Thatcher Era
Part Four: Unity?
13. The European Revolutions, 1989–1991
14. The Bones of Bosnia
15. Who Is European? Race, Immigration, and the Politics of
Division
16. The Elusive European Union
William I. Hitchcock was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1965, the son of a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. He graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio and received his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1994. A former professor and prize-winning teacher at Yale, he is currently Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Director of Academic Programs at the Miller Center. He is the author of France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 and The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
"[S]hould be read and studied by a generation of students of
European history. . . . One could not want a clearer exposition and
a better guide." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Lively and insightful. . . . A thoughtful narrative that
challenges some previous assumptions about key events that shaped
our world.” —The Washington Post Book World
“Splendid. . . . Hitchcock is a gifted storyteller, with a knack
for choosing the right anecdote and quotation to enliven his
story.” —The Economist
“Energetic and fluid. . . . A confident, sharp-minded account.”
—Financial Times
“Every now and then books come along that tell you who the master
historians of the next generation are going to be. I had this sense
as I read Will Hitchcock’s The Struggle for Europe. Shrewd,
comprehensive, elegantly written, always convincing in its
arguments, it is without question the most successful analytical
synthesis of recent European history now available.” —John Lewis
Gaddis, Yale University
“There is nothing more important at this juncture of our history
than a crash course for Americans in modern European history. And
there is no better place to start than with William I. Hitchcock’s
book. . . . It deserves serious attention.” —Daily News Tribune
“A clear exposition of postwar developments. . . . Sober and
comprehensive.” —Publishers Weekly
“Lucid, highly readable. . . . Scholarly without being tedious, a
sturdy companion to Richard Vinen’s A History in Fragments.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Two features of this book stand out: its easy, lucid style, which
allows deeply thought-out analyses to be slipped into the readable
narrative; and the confident way it treats regional complexities,
from Ulster to Greece, yet preserves the larger picture of Europe’s
remarkable transformation. This is a very deft and mature work.”
—Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
“Succinct and handy. . . . Its analysis is adept, well supported
with statistics, and quite readable.” —Booklist
“Concise . . . A classic account. . . . [The Struggle for Europe]
has the priceless merit of clarity, indispensable to those trying
to pick their way through the European labyrinth.” —The Daily
Telegraph (London)
“The nature of the task [Hitchcock] has accomplished here should
not be underestimated. In fewer than 500 pages of text he has
synthesized a mass of information, intelligently summarizing the
latest state of play on a whole range of topics. . . . Always lucid
and the geographical range is impressive.” —The Sunday Telegraph
(London)
“An unassuming tour de force, The Struggle for Europe is seamlessly
structured, witty and elegant in its narration.”—The Scotsman
(UK)
“The optimism is refreshing, and this well-informed work is written
in robust and readable prose.” —The Independent (London)
“Brilliantly concise, pithy, and sometimes acerbic. . . If it is
true that nations that forget their history are doomed to repeat
it, then The Struggle for Europe ought to be part of a national
curriculum.” —The Times (London)
“Written with an impressive level of sensitivity and understanding.
. . . Hitchcock’s lively style and infectious enthusiasm for his
subject have resulted in a book which deserves to be widely read.”
—Scotland on Sunday
“Stimulating and readable. . . . Hitchcock is alive to the dilemmas
of European policy makers and statesmen.” —The Evening Standard
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