Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as being 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative …

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