To hell and back : Europe, 1914-1949

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To hell and back : Europe, 1914-1949

Title remainder

Europe, 1914-1949

Statement of responsibility

Ian Kershaw

Creator

• Kershaw, Ian

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes
• Europe -- History -- 1918-1945
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes
• Europe -- History -- 1871-1918

Language

eng

Summary

The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history 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. 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.--

Member of

• Penguin history of Europe, 8

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Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

940.3

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The Penguin History of Europe

Series volume

VIII