Bibliograph

Savage continent, Europe in the aftermath of World War II, Keith Lowe

Type

Label

Savage continent, Europe in the aftermath of World War II, Keith Lowe

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-441) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Savage continent

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

796983759

Responsibility statement

Keith Lowe

Sub title

Europe in the aftermath of World War II

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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