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Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Picador
July 2013
On Sale: July 3, 2013
496 pages
ISBN: 125003356X
EAN: 9781250033567
Kindle: B006ZL9C8E
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Historical | Non-Fiction History
The Second World War might have officially ended in May
1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time
when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was
quite different. 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 police, media, transport, and local and
national government—were either entirely absent or
compromised. Crime rates soared, economies collapsed, and
whole populations hovered on the brink of starvation.. In
Savage Continent, Keith Lowe describes a continent where
individual Germans and collaborators were rounded up and
summarily executed, where concentration camps were reopened,
and violent anti-Semitism was reborn. In some of the
monstrous acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen,
tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral
homelands. Savage Continent is the story of post–war Europe,
from the close of the war right to the establishment of an
uneasy stability at the end of the 1940s. Based principally
on primary sources from a dozen countries, Savage Continent
is the chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history
of post–World War II Europe for years to come.
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