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PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-101250000203
ISBN-139781250000200
eBay Product ID (ePID)111277465
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Book TitleSavage Continent : Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEurope / General
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorKeith Lowe
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight24.7 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsLowe's work, thoroughly researched and written with scrupulous objectivity, promises to be the year's best book on European history., "A superb and immensely important book."- The Washington Post "Lowe's work, thoroughly researched and written with scrupulous objectivity, promises to be the year's best book on European history."- Financial Times (UK) "Deeply harrowing. Moving, measured and provocative. A compelling picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized by slaughter."- Sunday Times (UK) "Graphic and chilling. This excellent book paints a little-known and frightening picture of a continent in the embrace of lawlessness and chaos."-Ian Kershaw Bestselling author of The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 , Praise for Inferno : "Not since Len Deighton's classic Bomber has there been a book which re-created with such objectivity both sides of the story, or which painted in such vivid detail the destruction of a city, and the sufferings of those who lived there, and those British and American young men who put their lives at risk to destroy it." --Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and Journey to a Revolution, Deeply harrowing. Moving, measured and provocative. A compelling picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized by slaughter., "A superb and immensely important book." -- The Washington Post "Lowe's work, thoroughly researched and written with scrupulous objectivity, promises to be the year's best book on European history." -- Financial Times (UK) "Deeply harrowing. Moving, measured and provocative. A compelling picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized by slaughter." -- Sunday Times (UK) "Graphic and chilling. This excellent book paints a little-known and frightening picture of a continent in the embrace of lawlessness and chaos." -- Ian Kershaw Bestselling author of The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945, Graphic and chilling. This excellent book paints a little-known and frightening picture of a continent in the embrace of lawlessness and chaos.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal940.554
Synopsis"The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years..."The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring, economies collapsing, and the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In "Savage Continent," Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. Individuals, communities and sometimes whole nations sought vengeance for the wrongs that had been done to them during the war. Germans and collaborators everywhere were rounded up, tormented and summarily executed. Concentration camps were reopened and filled with new victims who were tortured and starved. Violent anti-Semitism was reborn, sparking murders and new pogroms across Europe. Massacres were an integral part of the chaos and in some places particularly Greece, Yugoslavia and Poland, as well as parts of Italy and France they led to brutal civil wars. In some of the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen, tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral homelands, often with the implicit blessing of the Allied authorities. "Savage Continent" is the story of post WWII Europe, in all its ugly detail, from the end of the war right up until the establishment of an uneasy stability across Europe towards the end of the 1940s. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, "Savage Continent" is a frightening and thrilling chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post WWII Europe for years to come.", The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring, economies collapsing, and the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In Savage Continent , Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. Individuals, communities and sometimes whole nations sought vengeance for the wrongs that had been done to them during the war. Germans and collaborators everywhere were rounded up, tormented and summarily executed. Concentration camps were reopened and filled with new victims who were tortured and starved. Violent anti-Semitism was reborn, sparkingmurders and new pogroms across Europe. Massacres were an integral part of the chaos and in some places - particularly Greece, Yugoslavia and Poland, as well as parts of Italy and France - they led to brutal civil wars. In some of the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen, tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral homelands, often with the implicit blessing of the Allied authorities. Savage Continent is the story of post WWII Europe, in all its ugly detail, from the end of the war right up until the establishment of an uneasy stability across Europe towards the end of the 1940s. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, Savage Continent is a frightening and thrilling chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post WWII Europe for years to come.
