| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xx, 460 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps. ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-441) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
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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| ISBN |
9781250000200: $30.00 |
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9781250015044 (e-book) |
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1250000203 |
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