Savage Continent Book Review

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This review is on the book, Savage Continent, by Keith Lowe and Published by St. Martin’s Press in New York, on July 3, 2012. Savage Continent is a historical book about life in Europe after World War 2. I will be reviewing his writing style, strengths and weaknesses, author’s main point and provide evidence from the reading. After World War 2 in the year 1944 and 1945 cities in Europe was like a scene from Mad Max. A world where there are no laws, no morality, nothing left from the Europe before World War 2. Keith Lowe’s thesis for writing this book was to show how the war changed Europe and the people in the area. People stealing and selling their body for food and shelter, killing, civil wars and revenge ran rampant throughout Europe. Lowe focused on mainly on the people and soldiers in Europe. He talked about British people and soldiers, …show more content…
In the introduction he talks about his thesis and talked about how Europe was after World War 2. The first part talked about the mental and physical damages Europe and the people suffered after the war. In the second part of the book, Lowe wrote about the revenge the people in the area sought for. Lowe mentioned how people would attack German soldiers, women that have been with German soldiers and even children. Everyone was looking for blood at this time. Part three, Lowe wrote about how people did not change about the race of people. The people still didn’t like other people of different ethnic groups. He mentioned how people of other races and ethnic groups treated others horribly. In the last part of the book he talks about the civil wars that happened throughout Europe and what happened that lead up to these civil wars. The conclusion of Lowes book brings everything together. He talks about all the main points in each part that supports his thesis from the

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