THE LONG ROAD HOME: THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Author: Ben Shephard

Publisher: The Bodley Head

Year published: 2010

Pagination: 486pp illustrations, map

Condition: Good in d/w

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This book offers a radical reassessment of the aftermath of World War II.It assesses the events and personalities of that decade in terms of contemporary standards and values. Confronted by an entire continent starving and uprooted, Allied planners devised strategies to help all 'displaced persons', and repatriate the fifteen million people who had been deprived of their homes and in many cases forced to work for the Germans. But over a million Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians and Yugoslavs refused to go home. This the true and epic story of how millions ultimately found relief, reconciliation and a place to call home.