Savage Continent : Europe in the Aftermath of World War II / Keith Lowe
- Author:
- Lowe, Keith, 1970-
- Published:
- New York : Picador, 2013.
- Edition:
- 1st Picador ed.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- 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.
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781250033567
125003356X - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-441) and index.
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