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SAVAGE CONTINENT: EUROPE IN THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II

by Keith Lowe

Published by Viking. 1st. 2012

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. A groundbreaking study of the years that followed the war. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates.xx and 460 pages.

Spine and corners bumped. Pale page browning. Dustwrapper is slightly creased and rubbed at edges.

ISBN: 9780670917464
Stock no. 1329635

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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

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