Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-398) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

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

Table Of Contents

Part I. The legacy of war -- Physical destruction -- Absence -- Displacement -- Famine -- Moral destruction -- Hope -- Landscape of chaos -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. 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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