To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of Europe)

"Chilling...Â To Hell and BackÂ should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinkingâ€¦. Kershaw documents each and every â€˜ismâ€™ of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism."â€”The New York Times Book Review

The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershawâ€™s long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II.
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The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human historyâ€”an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War, award-winning British historian Ian Kershaw combines his characteristic original scholarship and gripping prose as he profiles the key decision makers and the violent shocks of war as they affected the entire European continent and radically altered the course of European history. Kershaw identifies four major causes for this catastrophe: an explosion of ethnic-racist nationalism, bitter and irreconcilable demands for territorial revisionism, acute class conflict given concrete focus through the Bolshevik Revolution, and a protracted crisis of capitalism.
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Incisive, brilliantly written, and filled with penetrating insights, To Hell and Back offers an indispensable study of a period in European history whose effects are still being felt today.Â

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-11-17
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-11-17
Format	Kindle eBook

To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of Europe)

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