Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War Two, By Keith Lowe Brendan Simms In his memoir If This is a Man, the Italian writer Primo Levi recalls that the most terrifying time for him at Auschwitz was not the years of incarceration by the Nazis, when beatings, hunger, back-breaking work and the threat of murder were omnipresent. He came closest to despair during the...(展开全部)

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years ...Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirel...(展开全部)

Imagine a world without institutions. It is a world where borders between countries seem to have dissolved, leaving a single, endless landsc ape over which people travel in search of communities that no longer exist. There are no governments any more, neither on a national scale nor even on a local one. There are no schools or universities, no libraries or archives, no access t...(展开全部)

Drawing on a vast range of sources, from manga comics to MacArthur's report to Congress, this monumental new work by America's foremost historian of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. Alongside the familiar story of economic resurgence, Dower examines how the nation as a whole reacted to the contradictory experi...(展开全部)

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War Two, By Keith Lowe Brendan Simms In his memoir If This is a Man, the Italian writer Primo Levi recalls that the most terrifying time for him at Auschwitz was not the years of incarceration by the Nazis, when beatings, hunger, back-breaking work and the threat of murder were omnipresent. He came closest to despair during the...(展开全部)

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years ...Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirel...(展开全部)

Imagine a world without institutions. It is a world where borders between countries seem to have dissolved, leaving a single, endless landsc ape over which people travel in search of communities that no longer exist. There are no governments any more, neither on a national scale nor even on a local one. There are no schools or universities, no libraries or archives, no access t...(展开全部)

Noted Holocaust scholar David M. Crowe presents a distinct and comprehensive examination of one of the greatest human tragedies in modern history. Acclaimed scholar, professor, and writer in the field of Holocaust studies, David M. Crowe begins this compelling new text with a detailed overview of the history of the Jews, their two-millennia- old struggle with a larger Christian...(展开全部)

戴维·M·克罗（David M.Crowe），美国伊隆大学法学院法学教授和历史学教授、哥伦比亚大学民族研究协会名誉主席、美国大屠杀纪念博物馆教育委员会成员，出版过多部研究大屠杀的著作，2004年关于辛德勒的著作、2007年关于东欧吉卜赛人的著作都获得了美国历史读物俱乐部的选择奖。

With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction...(展开全部)