Book description
Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait
of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.
The 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, Savage Continent is a shocking
portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness and terror.
Praise for Savage Continent:
'Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Moving, measured and
provocative. A compelling and plausible picture of a continent
physically and morally brutalized by slaughter' Dominic Sandbrook,
Sunday Times
'Excellent', Independent
'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', Scotsman
Keith 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
Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (Penguin). He lives
in north London with his wife and two children.
After spending more than a decade as a history publisher, Keith Lowe
is now a full-time writer. He is widely recognised 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
Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg 1943
. He lives in north London with his wife and two children.
