FROM THE ASHES
A new history of Europe since 1945.
by LOUIS MENAND
Issue of 2005-11-28
Posted 2005-11-21
âWhen you are as worried as Europe is about the bare essentials of existence, you are not much interested in ideas,â? Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the editor of Foreign Affairs, wrote in 1947 after a visit there. âYou cannot eat either âDas Kapitalâ or the Declaration of the Rights of Man.â? More than thirty-six million Europeans were killed in the Second World War; nineteen million of them were civilians…For full story click here.
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