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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Keith Lowe
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Description for Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Paperback. The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended. Num Pages: 480 pages, 16 pp photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 122 x 29. Weight in Grams: 382.
Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.
The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, Savage Continent is a shocking portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness and terror.
Praise for Savage Continent:
'Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured and provocative. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141034515
SKU
9780141034515
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Keith Lowe
Keith Lowe is widely recognized as a leading authority on the Second World War. He is the author of Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 and Savage Continent, which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He has spoken often on television and radio, both in Britain and the United States, and his books ... Read more
Reviews for Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
Grimly absorbing, conveys the pity of war and its sorry aftermath with integrity and proper sympathy
Ian Thomson
Sunday Telegraph
Moving, measured and provocative
Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times
Extraordinary...exceptional...reveals a continent where moral values were often missing and basically lawlessness prevailed for several years
Trevor James
The Historian
Savage Continent is ... Read more
Ian Thomson
Sunday Telegraph
Moving, measured and provocative
Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times
Extraordinary...exceptional...reveals a continent where moral values were often missing and basically lawlessness prevailed for several years
Trevor James
The Historian
Savage Continent is ... Read more