How long does it take to read The Struggle for Europe?
William I. Hitchcock
The Struggle for Europe by William I. Hitchcock takes about 9 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 543 pages, about 149,325 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"William Hitchcock's sweeping new survey fills a critical gap in the writing on postwar Europe. The Struggle for Europe starts by assessing the impact of World War II on European politics and society and the foundations of Europe's extraordinary economic recovery. It explores the roles of the United States and the Soviet Union in shaping the postwar settlement and shows how Europeans often resisted and defied superpower dictates. In examining Cold War politics between 1945 and 1989, Hitchcock reveals the serious challenges mounted to the super-powers by such European leaders as Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt, and Margaret Thatcher. The book examines the fall of Communism as an ideology and lays out the long-term factors that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Concluding chapters show that Europe has made great strides in fulfilling the promise of economic and political union but has yet to overcome the troubling legacy of racial, ethnic, and national antagonism."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Communism, Economic conditions, History, Europese integratie, Communism, europe, Europe, economic conditions
