To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

<''Superb ... likely to become a classic'' Observer

In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent''s politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world had collapsed into a chaotic savagery beyond any comparison. In 1939 Europeans would initiate a second conflict that managed to be even worse - a war in which the killing of civilians was central and which culminated in the Holocaust.

To Hell and Back tells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but he also wrestles with the most difficult issues that the events raise - with what it meant for the Europeans who initiated and lived through such fearful times - and what this means for us.<>

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A great achievement ... There could hardly be a more judicious guide to this bloody terrain ... a stark lesson in man's capacity for evil Dominic Sandbrook The Sunday Times

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ian Kershaw
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.06.2016
• EAN: 9780141980430
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198043-0
• Seiten: 592
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 196 mm x 28 mm
• Serie: PENGUIN PRESS
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Sachbuch > Geschichte; Europe, First World War, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)