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**Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's __The Fear and the Freedom__ looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world.** __The Fear and the Freedom__ is Keith Lowe’s follow-up to __Savage Continent__. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, __The Fear and the Freedom__ looks at all that has happened since, focusing on the changes that were brought about because of WWII―simultaneously one of the most catastrophic and most innovative events in history. It killed millions and eradicated empires, creating the idea of human rights, and giving birth to the UN. It was because of the war that penicillin was first mass-produced, computers were developed, and rockets first sent to the edge of space. The war created new philosophies, new ways of living, new architecture: this was the era of Le Corbusier, Simone de Beauvoir and Chairman Mao. But amidst the waves of revolution and idealism there were also fears of globalization, a dread of the atom bomb, and an unexpressed longing for a past forever gone. All of these things and more came about as direct consequences of the war and continue to affect the world that

Who reads The Fear and the Freedom : How the Second World War Changed Us?

Author

Keith Lowe

Publisher

St. Martin’s Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250043955

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14