THE LONG ROAD HOME: THE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Book ID/图书代码： 00200010B34606
English Summary/英文概要： Surprisingly early in the Second World War - long before an Allied victory was assured - people began to plan for its aftermath. They were haunted by memories of what happened a generation before - when the millions of soldiers killed on the battlefields of the Great War had been eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease and starvation when the conflict was over. They were determined that this time around the ceasefire would not be followed by a civilian disaster. Confronted by an entire continent starving and uprooted, and with the help of a new UN body to aid the populations of Europe and Asia, Allied planners did not single out victims of the Nazi death camps for particular attention, but devised strategies to help all ’displaced persons’ - as they had become known by 1943. Most of the fifteen million foreign labourers in Germany were speedily repatriated. But a million-and-a-half people - Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians and Yugoslavs - refused to go home. It took the Allies seven years to resolve this problem. They had to create the state of Israel, alter the whole basis of their immigration policy and let thousands of war criminals go free. This book offers a radical reassessment of the aftermath of World War II. Unlike most recent writing about the 1940s, it assesses the events and personalities of that decade in terms of contemporary standards and values. In particular, it shows that the tragic consequences of war were understood not in terms of genocide, but of displacement - of millions of people deprived of their homes and often forced to work for the Germans.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 能源危機下，戰爭所引發的深度思考……令人驚訝的是早在二戰之前 — 同盟國早已預知了自己的勝利 — 人們開始著手從事戰後重建計畫。數以百萬計的士兵戰死在這場大的戰役中，直至這場衝突結束時，超過數百萬的平民被疾病和饑荒奪去了生命，— 倖存的人們被這場歷史戰爭的痛苦回憶所糾纏著。他們決意停止戰爭，不再給平民帶來災難。著手全面解決世界人民的饑荒，以及在新的聯合國機構的幫助下，援助歐亞大陸的受難群眾，在當時，聯合國規劃者沒有特別指明納粹死亡集中營的受害者，但他們為‘因戰爭而流離失所的人’專門設計了援助方案 — 就像我們熟悉的從1943年二戰中所倖存下來的那些難民。在德國有一千五百萬大部分外籍勞工很快地被遣返回國。但是將近二百五十萬的 — 猶太人，波蘭人，烏克蘭人，拉脫維亞人，立陶宛人，愛沙尼亞人和南斯拉夫人 — 拒絕返回家園。同盟國花了七年的時間來解決這一問題。他們不得不為猶太人建立了以色列國，修改整個原有的移民政策好讓成千上萬的戰爭罪犯得以逃脫懲罰。本書重新評估了二戰之後對人們產生的後果，有別於其他多數撰寫有關上世紀40年代的歷史事件，按照當代的標準和價值觀來評定那十年來所發生的歷史事件和人物特性。尤其是，它顯示了戰爭的悲劇所造成的那些無法理喻的種族屠殺行為，要不是由於遷徙 — 成千上萬的人因此而失去了家園，時常被迫為德國人工作。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：“這是一部史詩般的歷史書，優美雋永的文筆和令人驚訝的充分調查報告。”—— 華爾街日報“值得深思和嚴肅反思的一部歷史書籍。”—— 紐約新聞報書評
“精湛地……用全面而富有同情的筆觸描述整個難民時代，《The Long Road Home/漫漫歸途》這本書的內容超越了時代的關鍵性問題……它將是基於那些普通大眾，任何一位想要從戰爭中獲得深度經驗教訓的一本必讀之書，在大多數情況下，克服戰爭所帶來的困擾和可怕的災難。”—— 華盛頓郵報
"This is an epic book, beautifully written and astonishingly well-researched." --"The Wall Street Journal"
"""Thoughtful and sobering."" --New York Journal of Books"
"""Masterful...With its thorough and compassionate depiction of the DP era as a whole, The Long Road Home establishes beyond question the period’s pivotal importance...[It] should be required reading for anyone who seeks to obtain insight into the capacity of ordinary individuals to confront and, for the most part, overcome the consequences of persecution and dire devastation." --"The Washington Post"
About the Author/作者介绍： Ben Shephard（本•謝菲爾德）就讀于牛津大學歷史系。他曾是電視系列片《The World at War/二戰全史》和《The Nuclear Age/核時代》的製片人，也曾為英國國家廣播電臺和英國第四電臺製作過許多歷史好科學紀錄片。他是備受好評的《A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists 1914-1994/心理戰：士兵和精神科醫生1914-1994》和《After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945/黎明之後：貝爾森集中營的解放，1945》.他住在（英國西部的港口城市）布里斯托爾。
Ben Shephard was born in 1948 and read History at Oxford University. He was a Producer on the television series The World at War and The Nuclear Age and has made numerous historical and scientific documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four. He contributed to Imperialism and Popular Culture (1985), 150 Years of British Psychiatry, Volume 2: The Aftermath (1996) and A Century of Psychiatry (1999) and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in Bristol.
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