Savage continent : Europe in the aftermath of World War II / Keith Lowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Keith, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe.

Reconstruction (1939-1951).

Europe.

Communism--Europe.

Communism.

Europe--History--1945-.

History.

Europe--Economic conditions--1945-.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xx, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-441) and index.

ISBN:

9781250000200 :

1250000203

OCLC:

796983759