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Almost done reading SAVAGE CONTINENT by keith Lowe.
Not just a bunch of stats, (that are scary in themselves!) but well broken down to select individual accounts and reasons behind the chaos, looting, rape, revenge killing and lawlessness or sometimes worse, the lawful authorities, right after the War as well as sometime after! Not a good time in history to be unarmed or unprepared!
A compelling picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized
by slaughter'
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
'Essential. A serious account of things we never knew and our fathers would rather forget. Lowe's transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a catalogue of horrors . . . you won't sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind'
Scotsman
Not just a bunch of stats, (that are scary in themselves!) but well broken down to select individual accounts and reasons behind the chaos, looting, rape, revenge killing and lawlessness or sometimes worse, the lawful authorities, right after the War as well as sometime after! Not a good time in history to be unarmed or unprepared!
A compelling picture of a continent physically and morally brutalized
by slaughter'
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
'Essential. A serious account of things we never knew and our fathers would rather forget. Lowe's transparent prose makes it difficult to look away from a catalogue of horrors . . . you won't sleep afterwards. Such good history it keeps all the questions boiling in your mind'
Scotsman