A solid overview that actually manages to be a centre view. In the right-wing saturated popular history market this is refreshing. Comes close to Judt's Postwar, buy is less scathing of Marxism. It would be very interesting to see how the 1997 labour victory sense that permeates the last few chapters would look like in a 2015 new edition, after the wholesale turn of 'social democracy' to neoliberalism.