Savage Continent

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

A Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and winner of the PEN/Hessel-Tillman History Book Award, The Savage Continent offers a window into the chaotic, fleeting period between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Drawing on original archive material, interviews, and scholarly writing in eight languages, The Savage Continent is the first major history of the period.
Heart-wrenching. Emotional, measured, and deeply moving. A compelling portrait of a Europe hardened, physically and morally, by the brutality of slaughter.
—Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times
With vivid imagery and chilling prose, this remarkable book paints a chilling and rarely seen picture of a continent mired in disorder and chaos.
—Ian Kershaw "Superb. Brilliantly conceived, meticulously researched... a historical narrative of genius."
—BBC History Channel World War II left Europe in shambles. The landscape was radically altered, cities razed to the ground, and tens of millions of people murdered. Across much of the continent, institutions we take for granted today—such as police, media, transportation, local and national governments—were either absent or in ruins. Crime was rampant, economies collapsed, and Europeans teetered on the brink of starvation.
In this groundbreaking study of the early postwar years, Keith Lowe depicts a continent still gripped by violence, where significant segments of the population still refuse to believe the war is over. He paints a picture of the moral decay and insatiable thirst for revenge that are the legacy of a protracted conflict. He describes the ethnic cleansing and civil wars that tore apart the lives of ordinary people from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, and he depicts the re-established world order that ultimately brought stability to a shattered continent. This dynamic, he shows, existed across Europe—Eastern as well as Western.

2015-07-01

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