Orderly and Humane The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War

"Doug-las, a historian at Colgate, offers the most thorough study available of the largest expulsion of a people in human history and by far the most horrific instance in post-war Europe of what is now called ethnic cleansing: the forcible transfer of at least 12 million ethnic Germans, mostly women and children from Eastern and Central Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War. The result is an authoritative analysis of an episode that, contrary to McCormick's prediction, has utterly failed to penetrate the popular historical memory.." --Benjamin Schwarz, "The Atlantic, "Named one of the Books of the Year 2012--Benjamin Schwarz"The Atlantic" (11/01/2012)