Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2005

Foreword -- Preface & Acknowledgements -- Map of Europe in 1947 -- Map of Europe in 2005 -- Preface & acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The legacy of war -- Retribution -- The rehabilitation of Europe -- The impossible settlement -- The coming of the Cold War -- Into the whirlwind -- Culture wars -- The end of old Europe -- The politics of stability -- Lost illusions -- The age of affluence -- The social democratic moment -- The spectre of revolution -- The end of the affair -- Diminished expectations -- Politics in a new key -- A time of transition -- The new realism -- The power of the powerless -- The end of the old order -- A fissile continent -- The reckoning -- The old Europe and the new -- The varieties of Europe -- Europe as a way of life -- Epilogue : from the House of the Dead : an essay on modern European memory

Tracing the history of postwar Europe and its changing role in the world, Tony Judt's major history of the continent in our times investigates the political, social and cultural history from retribution and reconstruction to exhaustion