{"product_id":"dark-continent-europes-twentieth-century-9780679757047","title":"Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] splendid book.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Continent \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything but a forgone conclusion and fascism and communism provided rival political solutions that battled and sometimes triumphed in an effort to determine the course the continent would take. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Mazower strips away myths that have comforted us since World War II, revealing Europe as an entity constantly engaged in a bloody project of self-invention. Here is a history not of inevitable victories and forward marches, but of narrow squeaks and unexpected twists, where townships boast a bronze of Mussolini on horseback one moment, only to melt it down and recast it as a pair of noble partisans the next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARK MAZOWER is Reader in History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eInside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44.\u003c\/i\u003e He writes and broadcasts regularly on current developments in the Balkans.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725314363666,"sku":"9780679757047","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fef0db25-9fc2-40b1-a2af-55014502e044.jpg?v=1734825323","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dark-continent-europes-twentieth-century-9780679757047","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}