Savage Continent

Savage Continent
Title Savage Continent PDF eBook
Author Keith Lowe
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Pages 480
Release 2012-07-03
Genre History
ISBN 1250015049

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The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years... The end of the Second World War in Europe is one of the twentieth century's most iconic moments. It is fondly remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, danced, drank and made love until the small hours. These images of victory and celebration are so strong in our minds that the period of anarchy and civil war that followed has been forgotten. 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 the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirely absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates were soaring, economies collapsing, and the European population was hovering on the brink of starvation. In Savage Continent, Keith Lowe describes a continent still racked by violence, where large sections of the population had yet to accept that the war was over. Individuals, communities and sometimes whole nations sought vengeance for the wrongs that had been done to them during the war. Germans and collaborators everywhere were rounded up, tormented and summarily executed. Concentration camps were reopened and filled with new victims who were tortured and starved. Violent anti-Semitism was reborn, sparking murders and new pogroms across Europe. Massacres were an integral part of the chaos and in some places – particularly Greece, Yugoslavia and Poland, as well as parts of Italy and France – they led to brutal civil wars. In some of the greatest acts of ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen, tens of millions were expelled from their ancestral homelands, often with the implicit blessing of the Allied authorities. Savage Continent is the story of post WWII Europe, in all its ugly detail, from the end of the war right up until the establishment of an uneasy stability across Europe towards the end of the 1940s. Based principally on primary sources from a dozen countries, Savage Continent is a frightening and thrilling chronicle of a world gone mad, the standard history of post WWII Europe for years to come.

Freedom Betrayed

Freedom Betrayed
Title Freedom Betrayed PDF eBook
Author George H. Nash
Publisher Hoover Press
Pages 816
Release 2013-09-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0817912363

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Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies before Pearl Harbor and policies during the war, as well as an examination of the war's consequences, including the expansion of the Soviet empire at war's end and the eruption of the cold war against the Communists.

Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85

Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85
Title Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85 PDF eBook
Author Mark Jackson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 268
Release 2016-12-05
Genre History
ISBN 1317318048

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In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.

Problems of World War II and Its Aftermath

Problems of World War II and Its Aftermath
Title Problems of World War II and Its Aftermath PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher
Pages 440
Release 1976
Genre Europe
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Zionism

Zionism
Title Zionism PDF eBook
Author Michael Stanislawski
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 150
Release 2017
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 0199766045

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"This Very Short Introduction discloses a history of Zionism from the origins of modern Jewish nationalism in the 1870's to the present. Michael Stanislawski provides a lucid and detached analysis of Zionism, focusing on its internal intellectual and ideological developments and divides"--

Looking for the Good War

Looking for the Good War
Title Looking for the Good War PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth D. Samet
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 241
Release 2021-11-30
Genre History
ISBN 0374716129

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“A remarkable book, from its title and subtitle to its last words . . . A stirring indictment of American sentimentality about war.” —Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post In Looking for the Good War, Elizabeth D. Samet reexamines the literature, art, and culture that emerged after World War II, bringing her expertise as a professor of English at West Point to bear on the complexity of the postwar period in national life. She exposes the confusion about American identity that was expressed during and immediately after the war, and the deep national ambivalence toward war, violence, and veterans—all of which were suppressed in subsequent decades by a dangerously sentimental attitude toward the United States’ “exceptional” history and destiny. Samet finds the war's ambivalent legacy in some of its most heavily mythologized figures: the war correspondent epitomized by Ernie Pyle, the character of the erstwhile G.I. turned either cop or criminal in the pulp fiction and feature films of the late 1940s, the disaffected Civil War veteran who looms so large on the screen in the Cold War Western, and the resurgent military hero of the post-Vietnam period. Taken together, these figures reveal key elements of postwar attitudes toward violence, liberty, and nation—attitudes that have shaped domestic and foreign policy and that respond in various ways to various assumptions about national identity and purpose established or affirmed by World War II. As the United States reassesses its roles in Afghanistan and the Middle East, the time has come to rethink our national mythology: the way that World War II shaped our sense of national destiny, our beliefs about the use of American military force throughout the world, and our inability to accept the realities of the twenty-first century’s decades of devastating conflict.

Nigeria and World War II

Nigeria and World War II
Title Nigeria and World War II PDF eBook
Author Chima J. Korieh
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 311
Release 2020-03-26
Genre History
ISBN 1108425801

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A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.