
To Hell and Back
Europe 1914-1949
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Narrado por:
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John Curless
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Ian Kershaw
The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the 20th century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw's long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II.
The European catastrophe, the long, continuous period from 1914 to1949, was unprecedented in human history - an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War, award-winning British historian Ian Kershaw combines his characteristic original scholarship and gripping prose as he profiles the key decision makers and the violent shocks of war as they affected the entire European continent and radically altered the course of European history. Kershaw identifies four major causes for this catastrophe: an explosion of ethnic-racist nationalism, bitter and irreconcilable demands for territorial revisionism, acute class conflict given concrete focus through the Bolshevik Revolution, and a protracted crisis of capitalism.
Incisive, brilliantly written, and filled with penetrating insights, To Hell and Back offers an indispensable study of a period in European history whose effects are still being felt today.
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Absolutely excellent!
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comprehensive review of modern European history
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Great listen for a WWII history buff.
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Wonderful historical overview
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For me, the most valuable part of the book was the coverage between the two World War's, where I was personally weakest. Now I can patch it all together - the First World War was the demise of monarchies, the period between the wars was absolute chaos and experimentation, with the rise of authoritarian regimes - some OK, some the Banes of the Century. The book ends at the end of the Second World War, but touches on the beginnings of the Cold War.
So it was a very knowledgable armchair presentation, and a good performance by the narrator,
Armchair Historian with a Well-Endowed Armchair
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Nice Overview
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A good thumbnail sketch an eventful piece of history
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Very detailed. Brilliant in breadth and scope.
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Content: insightful, unique analysis of the psychological, cultural, sociological reasons why Germans steadfastly resisted surrender right up to the end of the war. Not only did they resist surrender when all hope was lost; they also until the very end ruthlessly continued to embrace nazism and enact its brutal, prescribe, inhumane policies.
Highly recommended.
Complementary audios include:
Childers’ World War Two: a military and social history. This audio complements the concluding chapters of Childers’ Great Courses audio.
Masters of the Air is a history of the air war in Europe and adumbrates descriptions and evaluation of the 7th air forces role in bombing the heck out of Germany. Kershaw poignantly describes the effects of these raids.
A Woman in Berlin recounts the cruel indignities inflicted on Berliners especially women, during their East Prussia-to-Berlin. Included, of course, is Russian subjugation during the oppupation.
Excellent, unique analysis
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Perfect. eye opening.
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