Sunday Times top ten bestseller

Winner of the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, and Italy’s Cherasco History Prize

The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on civilians. Resistance fighters killed and pilloried collaborators. Ethnic cleansing, civil war, rape and murder were rife in the days, months and years after hostilities ended. Exploring a Europe consumed by vengeance, Savage Continent is a shocking portrait of an until-now unqcknowledged time of lawlessness and terror.

‘Extraordinary, disturbing and powerful’ – Daily Mail

‘Shocking, touching, very well written’ – New Statesman