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The Second World War Was The Most Destructive Conflict In History. It Left Europe In Ruins, Its Economies Severely Damaged And Millions Of Its People Facing Poverty And Malnutrition, Its Political Systems Shaken If Not Destroyed. Yet Three Decades Later Its Economies Had Recovered; It Largely Appeared Politically Stable; Its Inhabitants Generally Were Well Housed And Well Fed. Then At The End Of The 1980s, The Postwar Settlement Disintegrated, And A New Chapter In Europe's Postwar History Had Begun. Postwar Europe: A Very Short Introduction Offers A Concise Account Of Europe's History From The End Of The Second World War To Roughly The End Of The Twentieth Century. It Explores Conditions In Europe At The End Of The War, How Political Life Took Shape And Societies Were Rebuilt, The Impressive Postwar Economic Recovery, The Cold War Division, The End Of Empire, And Aspects Of European Cultural Life During The Second Half Of The Twentieth Century. It Explores How We Might Understand The Beginnings And Endings Of The Postwar Era, And Emphasises The Importance Of The Experiences Of Different Generations Of Europeans During The Postwar Decades-- Provided By Publisher.