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Poisoned Peace
1945 - The War That Never Ended
The book recreates the seismic shifts that concluded the Second World War and their lasting impact on the political landscape of Europe today. There was no real peace settlement in 1945 and the shape of Europe was determined simply by military force, dividing it into two halves which corresponded neither to geography, culture nor history.

Reviews of Poisoned Peace: 1945

“In his Poisoned Peace: 1945 – The War That Never Ended, Gregor Dallas has chosen to focus his study not upon the course but on the consequences of the war and has done so to an extent I have not seen elsewhere. The work therefore has, to my eye, a great attraction. It opens new vistas of (...)

Preface

The first vague awareness I had of a thing called the ’Second World War’ must have been on the day I was born, in July 1948. A post-war polio epidemic was then at its height in London and that was the day I got it; the result is I have two partially paralysed legs. I often jokingly referred to (...)
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