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  • Lowe, Keith, 1970-
     
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  • Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe.
     
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    Savage continent : Europe in the aftermath of World War II / Keith Lowe.
    by Lowe, Keith, 1970-
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    New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, c2012.
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  • Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe.
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  • Communism -- Europe.
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  • Europe -- History -- 1945-
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  • Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
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    9781250000200 :
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    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 LibraryLanguage, Literature & History940.554 LoChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Hilo Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction940.554 LoweChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Kapolei Public LibraryAdult Nonfiction940.554 LoChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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