Out of the Ashes: Europe’s Rebirth after the Second World War, 1945-1949
Examining Europe’s rise out of the ashes of the ruined continent to lasting stability, peace, and prosperity. This lecture seeks to explain why the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in history, produced such a contrasting outcome to the First. It suggests that the Second World War’s maelstrom of destruction replaced a catastrophic matrix[…]