{"product_id":"9780141034515-savage-continent","title":"Savage Continent","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEurope in the Aftermath of World War II\u003cbr\u003eThe end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith Lowe's \u003ci\u003eSavage Continent \u003c\/i\u003eis an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, \u003ci\u003eSavage Continent \u003c\/i\u003eis a shocking portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness and terror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSavage Continent\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured and provocative. A compelling and plausible picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized by slaughter'  Dominic Sandbrook, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Excellent', \u003ci\u003eIndependent  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Unbearable but essential. A serious account of things we never knew and our fathers would rather forget. Lowe's transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a whole catalogue of horrors.you won't sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind',\u003ci\u003e Scotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War, and has often spoken on TV and radio, both in Britain and the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eInferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife and two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943119138913,"sku":"9780141034515","price":13.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32282228.jpg?v=1738305827","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141034515-savage-continent","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}