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FROM THE ASHES.(Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945)(Book Review)
"When you are as worried as Europe is about the bare essentials of existence, you are not much interested in ideas," Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the editor of Foreign Affairs, wrote in 1947 after a visit there. "You cannot eat either 'Das Kapital' or the Declaration of the Rights of Man." More than thirty-six million Europeans were killed in the Second World War; nineteen million of them were civilians. Almost every town in Europe was damaged, thousands of villages were obliterated, and many major cities--including Rotterdam, Le Havre, Hamburg, Dresden, Minsk, Kiev, and Warsaw, along with large parts of London and Berlin--were destroyed. The Germans looted the countries they ...
- ALLIED TRIUMPH FADES INTO THE COLD WAR DISPUTES OVER EASTERN EUROPE AND POSTWAR...
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot Carpenter, Brown H. July 25, 1999 700+ words
...Berlin in July 1945 to deal with postwar Europe. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was...governments being established in Eastern Europe, and for shifting Poland westward...dictator also argued that Eastern Europe fell into Moscow's sphere of influence...
- Patchwork politics; Europe after 1945.(Postwar: A History of Europe Since...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 19, 2005 700+ words
...000 pages justify their length, and "Postwar" is no exception. When Lord Beaverbrook...It weighs too much." Sadly, "Postwar" is likely to suffer the same fate. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. By Tony Judt.
- Postwar Europe's new challenges
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Eric Weinberger October 31, 2009 700+ words
...Reflections on the Revolution in Europe," in its quite conscious...later. This "revolution" is postwar Muslim immigration to Europe, in the families and societies...Caldwell rightly suggests that postwar Europe may have been shocked into...
- Fall out: World War II and the shaping of postwar Europe. (Book reviews -...
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Ward, Christopher June 1, 2001 700+ words
...World War II and the Shaping of Postwar Europe. By Peter Calvocoressi. London...contemporaries ... determined the set of Europe's history at the most crucial...that have shaped the history of postwar Europe' and a challenge 'to think freshly...
- Postwar Europe shocks young writer.
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) January 15, 2006 700+ words
...year she spent traveling through Europe as a freelance reporter for a marginal...with the survivors of the war in Europe and the cities left blasted by bombs...have the breadth of histories of postwar Europe or the depth of memoirs of those...
- Postwar Europe: the capriciousness of universal values.
- Magazine article from: Daedalus Ruth, Arne June 22, 1997 700+ words
...nineties, it is possible to study the postwar period from a distance. One can rediscover...it must be remembered that no people in Europe are more profoundly attached to democratic...Morgenthau's treasury department. In the postwar negotiations between the Allies and the...
- Vectors of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Granieri, Ronald J. June 22, 2001 700+ words
...of Memory: Legacies of Trauma in Postwar Europe. By Nancy Wood. (Oxford and New...crimes that have scarred modern Europe? This is a much more complex issue...history and memory in contemporary Europe. Drawing on French sociologist...
- A History of Social Democracy in Postwar Europe.
- Magazine article from: West European Politics Merkel, Wolfgang January 1, 1993 700+ words
...and numerous articles on social democracy in Western Europe in general, and West Germany in particular, Stephen...difference' for analyse social democracy's development in postwar Europe, Padgett and Paterson analyse in particular the internal...
