Savage continent: Europe in the aftermath of World War II

The legacy of war. Physical destruction ; Absence ; Displacement ; Famine ; Moral destruction ; Hope ; Landscape of chaos

Vengeance. The thirst for blood ; The camps liberated ; Vengeance restrained : slave labourers ; German prisoners of war ; Vengeance unrestrained : Eastern Europe ; The enemy within ; Revenge on women and children ; The purpose of vengeance

Ethnic cleansing. Wartime choices ; The Jewish flight ; The ethnic cleansing of Ukraine and Poland ; The expulsion of the Germans ; Europe in microcosm : Yugoslavia ; Western tolerance, Eastern intolerance

Civil war. Wars within wars ; Political violence in France and Italy ; The Greek Civil War ; Cuckoo in the nest : Communism in Romania ; The subjugation of Eastern Europe ; The resistance of the 'Forest Brothers' ; The Cold War mirror.

Part I: The legacy of war. Physical destruction ; Absence ; Displacement ; Famine ; Moral destruction ; Hope ; Landscape of chaos

Part II: Vengeance. The thirst for blood ; The camps liberated ; Vengeance restrained : slave labourers [sic] ; German prisoners of war ; Vengeance unrestrained : Eastern Europe ; The enemy within ; Revenge on women and children ; The purpose of vengeance

Part III: Ethnic cleansing. Wartime choices ; The Jewish flight ; The ethnic cleansing of Ukraine and Poland ; The expulsion of the Germans ; Europe in microcosm : Yugoslavia ; Western tolerance, Eastern intolerance

Part IV: Civil war. Wars within wars ; Political violence in France and Italy ; The Greek Civil War ; Cuckoo in the nest : communism in Romania ; The subjugation of Eastern Europe ; The resistance of the 'Forest Brothers' ; The Cold War mirror.

The legacy of war. Physical destruction

Absence

Displacement

Famine

Moral destruction

Hope

Landscape of chaos

Vengeance. The thirst for blood

The camps liberated

Vengeance restrained : slave labourers

German prisoners of war

Vengeance unrestrained : Eastern Europe

The enemy within

Revenge on women and children

The purpose of vengeance

Ethnic cleansing. Wartime choices

The Jewish flight

The ethnic cleansing of Ukraine and Poland

The expulsion of the Germans

Europe in microcosm : Yugoslavia

Western tolerance, Eastern intolerance

Civil war. Wars within wars

Political violence in France and Italy

The Greek Civil War

Cuckoo in the nest : Communism in Romania

The subjugation of Eastern Europe

The resistance of the 'Forest Brothers'

The Cold War mirror.