Description
This is a book about Europe over time, compiled from facts, memories, diary entries, and excerpts from the author’s conversations with European leaders and ordinary people. Through this book, a prominent “historian of the present” engages readers in an important dialog about the uncertain and disturbing future of their native lands. What is modern Europe? Is it easy to be a European today? Where is the continent heading and what future does it have in store for it? Can we say that the long-awaited peace that has prevailed in Europe since the end of World War II has actually been achieved? What are the consequences of a brutal full-scale war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine in 2022? What will Brexit and the rollback of democracy in Hungary and Poland entail? Are we facing the erection of a new “Iron Curtain” and a new confrontation between European nations? The answers to these questions may seem ambiguous to the reader, but they also force us to think deeply about the present and future of Europe.
