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Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from World War II and how they changed the world.The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as World War II was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on the changes that were brought about because of World...

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As well as analyzing the major changes and the myths that emerged,  The Fear and the Freedom uses individual stories to examine the philosophical and psychological impact of the war, by showing how leaders and ordinary people coped with the post-war world and turned one of the greatest traumas in history into an opportunity for change. This is the definitive exploration of the aftermath of WWII - and the impact it still has.

De Tweede Wereldoorlog liet Europa achter in chaos. Landschappen waren vernietigd, steden met de grond gelijkgemaakt en meer dan 35 miljoen mensen gedood. De criminaliteit was onuitroeibaar en economieën stortten in. In zijn grensverleggende boek over de naoorlogse jaren brengt Keith Lowe niet alleen de verwrongen moraal in kaart, maar ook de enorme behoefte aan wraak als de nalatenschap van de oorlog. Hij beschrijft de etnische zuiveringen e...

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Zusammenbruch, Rechtlosigkeit, Anarchie: Mit der deutschen Kapitulation war das Töten noch nicht beendet. Zum ersten Mal macht Keith Lowe das ganz Europa umfassende Ausmaß der materiellen und moralischen Verwüstungen deutlich: die ergreifende Darstellung einer Welt, die aus den Fugen geraten war. Eindrucksvoll beschreibt Keith Lowe in seinem international viel beachteten Buch den Abstieg eines ganzen Kontinents in die Anarchie. Dabei zeigt e...

Explores the terrible explosion of violence which occurred across Europe at the end of WWII. Prisoners murdered jailers, soldiers visited atrocities on civilians and resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. A shocking portrait of a little acknowledged time of lawlessness and terror. 'Impressive and heart-rendering study...' Christopher Silvester, "Daily Express

The frightening and thrilling story of post World War II Europe, from the end of the war right up until the establishment of an uneasy stability across Europe toward the end of the 1940s.

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Zusammenbruch, Rechtlosigkeit, Anarchie: Mit der deutschen Kapitulation waren die Kämpfe und das Töten noch nicht beendet. Zum ersten Mal macht Keith Lowe das ganz Europa umfassende Ausmaß der materiellen und moralischen Verwüstungen deutlich: die ergreifende Darstellung einer Welt, die aus den Fugen geraten war. Eindrucksvoll beschreibt Keith Lowe in seinem international viel beachteten Buch den Abstieg eines ganzen Kontinents in die Anarchi...

Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize "A superb and immensely important book."-Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another ten years...The end of World War II in Europe is remembered as a time when cheering crowds filled the streets, but the reality was quite different. Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed, and more than...

La seconda guerra mondiale lascia un'Europa nel caos. Un continente devastato, città intere rase al suolo, più di 35 milioni di morti. Ma la distruzione non è solo fisica: è anche. sociale, politica, morale. Legge e ordine sono praticamente inesistenti. Istituzioni per noi oggi scontate, come governo e polizia, sono sparite o disperatamente compromesse. Non ci sono scuole né giornali. Non ci sono trasporti, né possibilità di comunicare. Non ci...

La seconda guerra mondiale lascia un'Europa nel caos. Un continente devastato, città intere rase al suolo, più di 35 milioni di morti. Ma la distruzione non è solo fisica: è anche. sociale, politica, morale. Legge e ordine sono praticamente inesistenti. Istituzioni per noi oggi scontate, come governo e polizia, sono sparite o disperatamente compromesse. Non ci sono scuole né giornali. Non ci sono trasporti, né possibilità di comunicare. Non ci...

Andy's obsession with the London Underground is interfering with his life. On the eve of his wedding, he makes a drunken bet that challenges him to travel through every single Tube station in just one day. Only by completing the entire map will Andy retrieve the Eurostar tickets he needs to get to his wedding in Paris. At 1 AM, Andy's fiancée, Rachel, will be on the Eurostar, with or without him.Not just an unpredictable story about one man's ...