

1946
The Making of the Modern World
Author: Victor Sebestyen
Narrator: Derek Perkins
Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 11/10/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History
Synopsis
Drawing on new archival material and many interviews, Sebestyen analyzes these major postwar decisions and others as he discusses the economic collapse, starvation, ethnic cleansing, and displacement that followed the war. This was the year when it was decided that there would be a Jewish homeland, when Europe would be split by the Iron Curtain, when independent India would become the world's biggest democracy, and when the Chinese communists would win a civil war that positioned them to become a great power.