Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
By Keith Lowe.
Description
Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize "A superb and immensely important book."―Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed, and more than thirty million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted―such as police, media, transport, and local...
ISBN(s)
125003356X, 9781250033567
