The bestselling author explores the impact of WW2 - for nations, cities and families around the world.
Keith Lowe is widely recognized as a leading authority on the Second World War. He is the author of Inferno- The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 and Savage Continent, which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He has spoken often on television and radio, both in Britain and the United States, and his books have been translated into 20 languages. He lives in north London with his wife and two children.
Richly-documented and wide-ranging . . . I wish schools would use
books like this to introduce pupils to the complexity of the
problems that face them
*Theodore Zeldin, author of 'The Hidden Pleasures of Life' and 'An
Intimate History Of Humanity'*
Provocative, insightful and at times profoundly moving . . . I hope
everyone - and our politicians especially - will read it and learn
its vitally important lessons
*James Holland*
Insightful and panoramic . . . no myth goes unchallenged.
Thoroughly compelling
*Sunday Times*
A masterpiece of historical inquiry: painstakingly researched,
cleverly constructed and elegantly written. In surveying such a
diverse panorama, Lowe displays a sensitivity to the human
condition - how we got to where we are now - that is as unusual as
it is welcome
*Daily Telegraph*
The Fear and The Freedom is a deft blend of historical research,
moving interviews, and challenging psychological insights. Lowe
writes with elegance and perception. A truly illuminating read
*Jonathan Dimbleby*
Keith Lowe has written an eloquent meditation on the aftermath and
the long psychological tentacles of the Second World War.
Beautifully written and profoundly perceptive, The Fear and the
Freedom confirms Lowe as one of our finest historians
*Antony Beevor*
Magnificent...headed for much acclaim, and possibly big prizes.
There is no doubting the size of Mr. Lowe's achievement. By virtue
of its ambition; the variety of its content; its author's talent in
giving us both "large" History and smaller and anecdotal tales; and
an easy narrative resting on wide-ranging scholarship, "The Fear
and the Freedom" can justly claim to be one of the best, most
useful books on World War II to have emerged in the past decade. It
belongs in everyone's library.
*Wall Street Journal*
Books about the causes and course of the Second World War continue
to pour off the presses. Yet there are far fewer books about the
world wide geopolitical, economic and personal effects of the most
catastrophic event of the 20th century. So Keith Lowe's concise,
lucid and highly readable book, which also includes the testimony
of individual memories of the immediate years after the end of the
War and their hopes of a cleansed new world of social justice and
prosperity, is to be welcomed. In Lowe's opinion, the
reconfiguration and realignment of nations that followed the War,
led ultimately to Brexit, with Europe once again divided in a
potentially dangerous and certainly disruptive way
*Juliet Gardiner*
This powerful book serves as a timely reminder of what our
forefathers forged out of the ashes of the Second World War - an
international order based on cooperation and interdependence
together with a bold, fearless domestic agenda that set about
creating a new society
*David Lammy*
Lowe's book is a compelling work of historical scholarship - but,
more than that, it is an intimate portrait of how human beings
carry on when their world has changed for ever
*New Statesman*
Intelligent and far-reaching . . . he blessedly forgoes the banal
literalism of conventional history by considering the mythological,
philosophical and psychological consequences of the war . . . Lowe
brilliantly reveals how, when trapped between freedom and fear,
people tether their emotional and intellectual states to world
events
*Financial Times*
Overflowing with insights and ideas and steeped in curious and
evocative detail . . . A very fine work of history
*Literary Review*
This is an important book, impossible to summarise, profound in its
humanity, bold in its confrontation of sacred myths
*The Herald*
Ceaselessly insightful, this masterpiece of historical inquiry -
the fruit of five years' labour - dissects the impact of the war on
society, politics, urban planning and much else besides
*Sunday Telegraph*
Few historians could be better placed to investigate this subject
than Keith Lowe . . . riveting
*Evening Standard*
Grimly absorbing, conveys the pity of war with integrity and proper
sympathy
*Sunday Telegraph*
Compelling, startling and gripping. The definitive account of a
great tragedy
*A.C. Grayling on 'Inferno'*
A real triumph: shocking, yet sensitive and supremely fair-minded.
This is a wonderful book about hellish events
*Richard Holmes on 'Inferno'*
The story of that hellish summer night is one Lowe tells well,
unblinkingly, exactly as he should... a tour de force
*Sunday Times on 'Inferno'*
Moving, measured and provocative
*Sunday Times*
Admirable, impeccably researched and engagingly written...deserves
its place on the shelves
*Daily Telegraph on 'Inferno'*
Graphic and chilling. This excellent book paints a little-known and
frightening picture of a continent in the embrace of lawlessness
and chaos
*Ian Kershaw on 'Savage Continent'*
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