Beschreibung:
Bernard Wasserstein was born in London in 1948 and educated at Balliol and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford. He has taught at Sheffield, Oxford, Glasgow, and Brandeis Universities and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2003 he has been Harriet and Ulrich Meyer Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His many previous books include Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945 and The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (which won the Golden
Dagger Award for Non-Fiction from the Crime Writers' Association).
Subtitled, "A History Of Europe In Our Time". Unravels the main paradox of the twentieth century: the co-existence of brute violence and the highest expressions of civilization.
1. Europe in 1914 ; 2. Europe at War 1914-17 ; 3. Revolutionary Europe 1917-1921 ; 4. Recovery of the Bourgeiosie 1929-1936 ; 5. Depression and Terror 1929-1936 ; 6. Europe in the 1930s ; 7. Spiral into War 1936-1939 ; 8. Hitler Triumphant 1939-1942 ; 9. Life and Death in Wartime ; 10. The End of Hitler's Europe 1942-1945 ; 11. Europe Partitioned 1945-1949 ; 12. West European Recovery 1949-1958 ; 13. Stalin and His Heirs 1949-1964 ; 14. Consensus and Dissent in Western Europe 1958-1973 ; 15. Europe in the 1960s ; 16. Strife in Communist Europe 1964-1985 ; 17. Stress in Liberal Europe 1973-1989 ; 18. The Collapse of Communism 1985-1991 ; 19. After the Fall 1991-2005 ; 20. Europe in the New Millennium