Download or read book Twisted Paths written by Robert Gerwarth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to European history between 1914 and 1945, this text moves beyond the view that it can only be understood in terms of catastrophe, arguing that political stability and regime collapse, social progress and mass poverty, the crisis of European civilization and remarkable cultural achievements, existed alongside each other.