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Lowe, Keith, 1970-
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Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe.
Communism -- Europe.
Europe -- History -- 1945-
Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
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Savage continent : E...
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Savage continent : Europe in the aftermath of World War II / Keith Lowe.
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Lowe, Keith, 1970-
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, c2012.
Subjects
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe.
Communism -- Europe.
Europe -- History -- 1945-
Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
ISBN:
9781250000200 :
Description:
xx, 460 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps. ; 25 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.
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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 citizens from their ancestral homelands.
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
940.554 Lo
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940.554 Lowe
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Kapolei Public Library
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940.554 Lo
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940.554 Lo
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