SAVAGE CONTINENT: EUROPE IN THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II
Written by Keith Lowe
Published by Viking
in 2012
ISBN: 9780670917464
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (EUROPEAN)
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
- EUROPE
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Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- Note on Place Names
- PART I The Legacy of War
- 1. Physical Destruction
- 2. Absence
- 3. Displacement
- 4. Famine
- 5. Moral Destruction
- 6. Hope
- 7. Landscape of Chaos
- PART II Vengeance
- 8. The Thirst for Blood
- 9. The Camps Liberated
- 10. Vengeance Restrained: Slave Labourers
- 11. German Prisoners of War
- 12. Vengeance Unrestrained: Eastern Europe
- 13. The Enemy Within
- 14. Revenge on Women and Children
- 15. The Purpose of Vengeance
- PART III ETHNIC CLEANSING
- 16. Wartime Choices
- 17. The Jewish Flight
- 18. The Ethnic Cleansing of Ukraine and Poland
- 19. The Expulsion of the Germans
- 20. Europe in Microcosm:Yugoslavia
- 21. Western Tolerance, Eastern Tolerance
- PART IV CIVIL WAR
- 22. Wars within Wars
- 23. Political Violence in France and Italy
- 24. The Greek Civil War
- 25. Cuckoo in the Nest: Communism in Romania
- 26. The Subjugation of Eastern Europe
- 27. The Resistance of the 'Forest Brothers'
- 28. The Cold War Mirror
- Conclusion