Lukacs concentrated on writing. He resided in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania and retained nearly 18,000 books in his home library. Lukacs died from congestive heart failure on May 6, 2019, at his home in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Works The Great Powers and Eastern Europe (New York: American Book Co., 1953). A History of the Cold War (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1961). Decline and Rise of Europe: A Study in Recent History, With Particular Emphasis on the Development of a European Consciousness (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1965). A New history of the Cold War (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966). Historical Consciousness; or, The Remembered Past (New York: Harper & Row, 1968). The Passing of the Modern Age (New York: Harper & Row, 1970). A Sketch of the History of Chestnut Hill College, 1924–1974 (Chestnut Hill, PA: Chestnut Hill College, 1975). The Last European War: September 1939–December 1941 (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1976). 1945: Year Zero (New York: Doubleday, 1978). Philadelphia: Patricians and Philistines, 1900–1950 (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981). Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth century (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984). Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988). Confessions of an Original Sinner (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1990). The Duel: 10 May–31 July 1940: the Eighty-Day Struggle between Churchill and Hitler (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991). The End of the Twentieth Century and the End of the Modern Age (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993). Destinations Past: Traveling through History with John Lukacs (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1994). The Hitler of History (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1997). George F. Kennan and the Origins of Containment, 1944–1946: the Kennan-Lukacs Correspondence, Introduction by John Lukacs. (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1997). A Thread of Years (New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1998). Five Days in London, May 1940 (New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 1999). A Student's Guide to the Study of History (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2000). Churchill: Visionary, Statesman, Historian (New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2002). At the End of an Age (New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2002). A New Republic: A History Of The United States In The Twentieth Century(New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2004). Democracy and Populism: Fear & Hatred (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). Remembered Past: John Lukacs