Savage Continent : Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

Keith Lowe’s Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.

The top of the Second World Warfare noticed a horrible explosion of violence throughout Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Troopers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleaning, civil warfare, rape and homicide had been rife within the days, months and years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, Savage Continent is a stunning portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness and terror.

Reward for Savage Continent:

‘Deeply harrowing, distinctly troubling. Shifting, measured and provocative. A compelling and believable image of a continent bodily and morally brutalized by slaughter’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Instances

‘Wonderful’, Impartial

‘Insufferable however important. A severe account of issues we by no means knew and our fathers would somewhat neglect. Lowe’s clear prose makes it tough to look away from a complete catalogue of horrors…you gained’t sleep afterwards. Such good historical past it retains all of the questions boiling in your thoughts’, Scotsman

Keith Lowe is widely known as an authority on the Second World Warfare, and has typically spoken on TV and radio, each in Britain and the US. He’s the creator of the critically acclaimed Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London along with his spouse and two kids.