Savage Continent

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

by Lowe, Keith

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Recounts the disorder in Europe after World War II, describing the brutal acts against Germans and collaborators, the anti-Semitic beliefs that reemerged, and the Allied-tolerated expulsions of citizens from their ancestral homelands.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Savage Continent : Europe in the Aftermath of World War II / Keith Lowe.

Summary

Recounts the disorder in Europe after World War II, describing the brutal acts against Germans and collaborators, the anti-Semitic beliefs that reemerged, and the Allied-tolerated expulsions of citizens from their ancestral homelands.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:First Picador edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Picador
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xx, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781250015044, 1250015049
  • oclc:ocn861786773
  • LC Classification:D829.E8
  • Dewey Decimal:940.554

Table of Contents

The legacy of war. Physical destruction ; Absence ; Displacement ; Famine ; Moral destruction ; Hope ; Landscape of chaos -- Vengeance. The thirst for blood ; The camps liberated ; Vengeance restrained : slave labourers ; German prisoners of war ; Vengeance unrestrained : Eastern Europe ; The enemy within ; Revenge on women and children ; The purpose of vengeance -- Ethnic cleansing. Wartime choices ; The Jewish flight ; The ethnic cleansing of Ukraine and Poland ; The expulsion of the Germans ; Europe in microcosm : Yugoslavia ; Western tolerance, Eastern intolerance -- Civil war. Wars within wars ; Political violence in France and Italy ; The Greek Civil War ; Cuckoo in the nest : Communism in Romania ; The subjugation of Eastern Europe ; The resistance of the 'Forest Brothers' ; The Cold War mirror.

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Subjects

1939 - 1951 Återuppbyggnad efter krig Communism Communism -- Europe Economic history Ekonomisk historia Europa Europe Europe -- Conditions économiques -- 194… Europe -- Economic Conditions Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945- Europe -- Histoire -- 1945- Europe -- History -- 1945- Història History Kommunism Kommunismus Öffentliche Ordnung Reconstruction (1939-1951) Reconstruction, 1939-1951 -- Europe

Writers

Lowe, Keith

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