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by Christopher Clark
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by Christopher Clark
Clark reconstructs the July 1914 crisis as a chain of decisions made by anxious, ambitious men who stumbled into catastrophe without fully grasping the consequences. Rejecting single-culprit explanations, he argues that the statesmen of all the great powers were sleepwalkers, blind to the disaster their interlocking alliances and miscalculations were producing.
by Keith Lowe
Lowe documents the violent chaos that engulfed Europe after VE Day - revenge killings, ethnic cleansings, famine, and civil wars that claimed millions more lives between 1945 and 1949. He argues that the familiar story of postwar reconstruction obscures a continent-wide descent into savagery, and that today's European order was built on a foundation of forced population transfers and suppressed memory.