The Oxford History of Modern Europe Quotes

“Throughout German-occupied Europe, Jewish communities were first forced into ghettoes and camps, and then, from the summer of 1941, systematically exterminated.(page 222)”
― Timothy C.W. Blanning, The Oxford History of Modern Europe

“Growth in the 1960s and 1970s was very fast; and the 1960s are generally reckoned to be the period of Spain's industrailization.(page 201)”
― Timothy C.W. Blanning, The Oxford History of Modern Europe

“None the less, given the poor quality of Allied leadership, it is likely that Germany would have won had she not gone to war with the United States in 1917.(page 150)”
― Timothy C.W. Blanning Blanning, The Oxford History of Modern Europe

“In the midst of this cauldron of instability, there were, in the broadest terms, two sorts of state: those which were sufficiently flexible, open to popular pressure, more or less democratic, and with the safety-valve of colonial empires, such as Britain and France; and those with rigid, authoritarian (if apparently democratic) systems uneasily presiding over highly unstable societies, such as Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Russia, and Spain. To a large extent, the fate of Europe hinged, between 1914 and 1945, as indeed it does now, on the comportment of the state with the largest and most dynamic economy - Germany.(page 149)”
― Timothy C.W. Blanning, The Oxford History of Modern Europe