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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 cit...
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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- Creator
- Keith Lowe
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st Picador edition
- New York : Picador, 2013
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xx, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781250033567, 125003356X
- OCLC
- ocn809613297
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-441) and index.
- 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