Our Author of the Month for February is celebrated historian Tony Judt.

Among the remarkable generation of historians who came out of Cambridge in the 1960s -- David Cannadine, Linda Colley and Simon Schama among others -- one name stands out. Well before his death in 2010 at the age of 62 from a progressive neurological disorder, Tony Judt proved himself a great historian of modern Europe and a brilliant political commentator. In his guise as a political and historical essayist, he was a fearless critic of narrow orthodoxies and bullying cliques, from communist apologists to the Israel lobby, from "liberal hawks" to progressive educationists.

Thinking the Twentieth Century is the final book by this unparalleled historian and public critic. Where Judt's masterpiece Postwar redefined the history of modern Europe by uniting the stories of its eastern and western halves, Thinking the Twentieth Century unites the century's conflicted intellectual history into a single soaring narrative. Spanning the entire era and all currents of thought in a manner never previously attempted, Thinking the Twentieth Century is a triumphant tour de force that restores clarity to the classics of modern thought with the assurance and grace of a master craftsman.