Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century -- Mark Mazower, Paperback David W. Harper Poignant and vulnerable essays that

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including all the issues and questions he has pursued relentlessly for four decades

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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century -- Mark Mazower, Paperback David W. Harper Poignant and vulnerable essays thatAn unflinching and intelligent alternative history of the twentieth century that provides a provocative vision of Europe's past, present, and future. "[A] splendid book." The New York Times Book Review Dark Continent provides 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