The end of the First World War saw old empires swept away and the opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. Yet the result was division and bloodshed on an unprecedented scale.
Mark Mazower´s watershed history retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of three rival ideologies - liberal democracy, communism and fascism - to create a new world order for mankind. Dark Continent radically overturns the myth of Europe as a safe faven of democracy to redefine our view of the twentieth century.