Savage continent : Europe in the aftermath of World War II / Keith Lowe.
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Viking
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2012.
Available at Main Library (D825.L7)
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Main Library | D825.L7 | 4 WEEK | IN LIBRARY |
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London : Viking, 2012.
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Description |
xx, 460 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-398) and index.
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Contents |
Part I. The legacy of war -- Physical destruction -- Absence -- Displacement -- Famine -- Moral destruction -- Hope -- Landscape of chaos -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. 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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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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ISBN |
9780670917464 (hbk.)
067091746X (hbk.)
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4 WEEK