Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, Savage Continent is a shocking portrait of an until-now unacknowledged time of lawlessness and terror.
Keith Lowe is widely recognized as an authority on the Second World War, and has often spoken on TV and radio, both in Britain and the United States. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (Penguin). He lives in north London with his wife and two children.
Grimly absorbing, conveys the pity of war and its sorry aftermath
with integrity and proper sympathy
*Sunday Telegraph*
Moving, measured and provocative
*Sunday Times*
Extraordinary...exceptional...reveals a continent where moral
values were often missing and basically lawlessness prevailed for
several years
*The Historian*
Savage Continent is a powerful and disturbing book, painstakingly
researched and written with both authority and an impressive
historical sweep
*James Holland*
A major new historical talent has arrived... a brilliantly
organised and scrupulously objective survey of a continent on the
floor
*BBC History Magazine*
An excellent account...Lowe's vivid descriptions of Europeans
scrambling for scraps of food, rampant theft and 'destruction of
morals' are a timely reminder that a certain humility is in order
when we look at less fortunate continents today.
*The Independent*
Impressive and heart-rendering study...Lowe marshals all the
elements of the story with cool even-handedness, especially where
statistics are concerned, and explains how subsequent generations
have manipulated the historical record to suit their own purposes,
either to diminish their guilt or demonise others.
*Daily Express*
Extraordinary, disturbing and powerful ... it is to Lowe's great
credit that he resists the temptation to sit in moral judgment ...
it is time we acknowledged the hidden realities of perhaps the
darkest chapter in all human history
*Daily Mail*
Graphic and chilling. This excellent book paints a little-known and
frightening picture of a continent in the embrace of lawlessness
and chaos
*Ian Kershaw*
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