Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II

by Paul Betts

Book Overview

From an award-winning historian, a panoramic account of Europe after the depravity of World War II
In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Some fifty million people were dead, and millions more languished in physical and moral defeat. The devastation of World War II was unprecedented in character as well as in scale. Unlike the First World War, the second blurred the line between civilian and combatant, inflicting unspeakable horrors on people from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541672461
• ISBN13: 9781541672468
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"