Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

Mark Mazower

Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
14 March 2000
Pages
512
ISBN
9780679757047

Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century

Mark Mazower

An unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe’s past, present, and future.

[A] splendid book. -The New York Times Book Review

Dark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take.

Mark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.

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