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The Fear and the Freedom: Why the Second World War Still Matters de Keith Lowe

The Fear and the Freedom: Why the Second World War Still Matters

Autor Keith Lowe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2018
The bestselling, prize-winning author explores the impact of the Second World War - for nations, cities and families around the world.
How does the experience and memory of the Second World War - one of the most catastrophic events in human history - affect our lives today?
The years after 1945 were a time of both terror and wonder, whose impact still dominates our lives. Out of the ashes of war came the superpowers and nations of the modern world. From the new technologies delivered by scientists came the possibility of nuclear war. Politicians fantasized about overhauled societies, with some arguing for global government, others for independence, leading to the arguments about nationalism, immigration and globalisation that exist today.
As well as analyzing the major changes and the myths that emerged,The Fear and the Freedomuses individual stories to examine the philosophical and psychological impact of the war, by showing how leaders and ordinary people coped with the post-war world and turned one of the greatest traumas in history into an opportunity for change. This is the definitive exploration of the aftermath of WWII - and the impact it still has.
'Richly-documented and wide-ranging. . . I wish schools would use books like this to introduce pupils to the complexity of the problems that face them' - Theodore Zeldin, author of 'The Hidden Pleasures of Life' and 'An Intimate History Of Humanity'
'Provocative, insightful and at times profoundly moving . . .I hope everyone - and our politicians especially - will read it and learn its vitally important lessons' - James Holland
'Insightful and panoramic. . . no myth goes unchallenged.Thoroughly compelling' - Sunday Times
'A masterpiece of historical inquiry: painstakingly researched, cleverly constructed and elegantly written. In surveying such a diverse panorama, Lowe displays a sensitivity to the human condition - how we got to where we are now - that is as unusual as it is welcome' - Saul David, Daily Telegraph
'The Fear and The Freedomis a deft blend of historical research, moving interviews, and challenging psychological insights.Lowe writes with elegance and perception. A truly illuminating read' - Jonathan Dimbleby
'Keith Lowe has written an eloquent meditation on the aftermath and the long psychological tentacles of the Second World War. Beautifully written and profoundly perceptive,The Fear and the Freedomconfirms Lowe as one of our finest historians' - Antony Beevor
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241966488
ISBN-10: 0241966485
Pagini: 576
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Keith Loweis widely recognized as a leading authority on the Second World War. He is the author ofInferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943andSavage Continent, which was aSunday Timestop ten bestseller and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He has spoken often on television and radio, both in Britain and the United States, and his books have been translated into 20 languages. He lives in north London with his wife and two children.

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Richly-documented and wide-ranging. . . I wish schools would use books like this to introduce pupils to the complexity of the problems that face them
Provocative, insightful and at times profoundly moving . . .I hope everyone - and our politicians especially - will read it and learn its vitally important lessons
Insightful and panoramic. . . no myth goes unchallenged.Thoroughly compelling
A masterpiece of historical inquiry: painstakingly researched, cleverly constructed and elegantly written. In surveying such a diverse panorama, Lowe displays a sensitivity to the human condition - how we got to where we are now - that is as unusual as it is welcome
The Fear and The Freedomis a deft blend of historical research, moving interviews, and challenging psychological insights.Lowe writes with elegance and perception. A truly illuminating read
Keith Lowe has written an eloquent meditation on the aftermath and the long psychological tentacles of the Second World War. Beautifully written and profoundly perceptive,The Fear and the Freedomconfirms Lowe as one of our finest historians
Magnificent...headed for much acclaim, and possibly big prizes. There is no doubting the size of Mr. Lowe's achievement. By virtue of its ambition; the variety of its content; its author's talent in giving us both "large" History and smaller and anecdotal tales; and an easy narrative resting on wide-ranging scholarship, "The Fear and the Freedom" can justly claim to be one of the best, most useful books on World War II to have emerged in the past decade. It belongs in everyone's library.
Books about the causes and course of the Second World War continue to pour off the presses. Yet there are far fewer books about the world wide geopolitical, economic and personal effects of the most catastrophic event of the 20th century. So Keith Lowe'sconcise, lucid and highly readablebook, which also includes the testimony of individual memories of the immediate years after the end of the War and their hopes of a cleansed new world of social justice and prosperity, is to be welcomed. In Lowe's opinion, the reconfiguration and realignment of nations that followed the War, led ultimately to Brexit, with Europe once again divided in a potentially dangerous and certainly disruptive way
This powerful book serves as a timely reminderof what our forefathers forged out of the ashes of the Second World War - an international order based on cooperation and interdependence together with a bold, fearless domestic agenda that set about creating a new society
Lowe's book is acompelling work of historical scholarship- but, more than that, it isan intimate portrait of how human beings carry on when their world has changed for ever
Intelligent and far-reaching. . . he blessedly forgoes the banal literalism of conventional history by considering the mythological, philosophical and psychological consequences of the war . . . Lowe brilliantly reveals how, when trapped between freedom and fear, people tether their emotional and intellectual states to world events
Overflowing with insights and ideasand steeped in curious and evocative detail . . . A very fine work of history
This is an important book, impossible to summarise, profound in its humanity, bold in its confrontation of sacred myths
Ceaselessly insightful,this masterpiece of historical inquiry - the fruit of five years' labour - dissects the impact of the war on society, politics, urban planning and much else besides
Few historians could be better placed to investigate this subject than Keith Lowe . . .riveting

Cuprins

Introduction

Part I - Myths and Legends
1. The End of the World
2. Heroes
3. Monsters
4. Martyrs
5. The Beginning of the World

Part II - Utopias
6. Science
7. Planned Utopias
8. Equality
9. Freedom and Belonging

Part II - One World
10. World Economy
11. World Government
12. World Law

Part III - Two Superpowers
13. The USA
14. The USSR
15. World Polarisation

Part IV - Two Hundred Nations
16. The Birth of an Asian Nation
17. The Birth of an African Nation
18. Democracy in Latin America
19. Israel: Nation of Archetypes
20. The Fall and Rise of Nationalism in Europe

Part V - Ten Thousand Fragments
21. Loss
22. Outcasts
23. Trauma
24. The Globalisation of Peoples