Pre-Owned To Hell and Back : Europe 1914-1949 (Hardcover) 9780670024582

from Schmerguls

5380.To Hell and Back Europe, 1914-1949, by Ian Kershaw (read 9 June 2016) This is a masterful work, telling of Europe from 1914 to 1949. There are no footnotes, though there is a 28 page bibliography. Much attention is paid to the time between the world wars, and the events after World War One, ...

from dimplesrao

Found this masterpiece in a bookstore at Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial site, near Munich, Germany. The author, IAN KERSHAW, is an expert historian of that part of the world and his volume (Europe 1914-1949) is a gripping bird's eye view on the era. We ain't able to understand state of human ...

from stillatim

The Penguin History of Europe is an uneven series, but Kershaw does an excellent job here. There's no reason not to read this book. He covers the major developments of the period, whether they be military, economic, social or cultural. His book is well organized, the sentences are crisp, and the ...

from DLMorrese

I found this an excellent account of a pivotal moment of history. It relates not only the events but the underlying economic and ideological factors that influenced them. So why only 4 stars? Well, it's the prose. Long, compound sentences, paragraphs that start with one subject and end in another...

from Schmerguls

5380.To Hell and Back Europe, 1914-1949, by Ian Kershaw (read 9 June 2016) This is a masterful work, telling of Europe from 1914 to 1949. There are no footnotes, though there is a 28 page bibliography. Much attention is paid to the time between the world wars, and the events after World War One, ...