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020    0670024589|q(hardcover : alk. paper) 
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100 1  Kershaw, Ian,|eauthor. 
245 10 To hell and back :|bEurope, 1914-1949 /|cIan Kershaw. 
264  1 New York :|bViking,|c[2015] 
300    xxiv, 593 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  The Penguin history of Europe ;|v8 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Europe's era of self-destruction -- On the brink -- The 
       Great Disaster -- Turbulent peace -- Dancing on the 
       volcano -- Gathering shadows -- Danger zone -- Towards the
       abyss -- Hell on earth -- Quiet transitions in the dark 
       decades -- Out of the ashes. 
520    "The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the 
       twentieth century with... Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated 
       analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War
       II. The European catastrophe, the long continuous period 
       from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history-- an
       extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly 
       fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This 
       new volume in the... series offers comprehensive coverage 
       of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of 
       World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath 
       of the Second World War, [the author] profiles the key 
       decision makers and the violent shocks of war as they 
       affected the entire European continent and radically 
       altered the course of European history. Kershaw identifies
       four major causes for this catastrophe: an explosion of 
       ethnic-racist nationalism, bitter and irreconcilable 
       demands for territorial revisionism, acute class conflict 
       given concrete focus through the Bolshevik Revolution, and
       a protracted crisis of capitalism. [This book] offers [a] 
       study of a period in European history whose effects are 
       still being felt today"--Amazon.com. 
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|zEurope. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|zEurope. 
651  0 Europe|xHistory|y1918-1945. 
830  0 Penguin history of Europe ;|v8. 
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