How long does it take to read Postwar?
A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar by Tony Judt takes about 17 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 6 minutes
A long haul
First published 2005. 933 pages, about 256,575 words.
35 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 28 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The first truly European history of contemporary Europe, from Lisbon to Leningrad, based on research in six languages, covering 34 countries across 60 years, using a great deal of material from newly available sources. The book integrates international relations, domestic politics, ideas, social change, economic development, and culture--high and low--into a single grand narrative. Every country has its chance to play the lead, and although the big themes are handled--including the cold war, the love/hate relationship with America, cultural and economic malaise and rebirth, and the myth and reality of unification--none of them is allowed to overshadow the rich pageant that is the whole.--From publisher description.
Subjects: History, Nonfiction, Europe, history
