Savage Continent: Europe in the aftermath of World War II

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

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Publication Date:©2012
Edition:First Picador edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Picador
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781250033567, 125003356X
oclc:ocn809613297
LC Classification:D829.E8
Dewey Decimal:940.554

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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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