To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

Ian Kershaw

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
18 July 2016
Pages
624
ISBN
9780141980430

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

Ian Kershaw

From one of our greatest historians, the epic story of how 20th-century Europe went to hell and back

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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