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Title: 1947: When Now Begins
Author: Elisabeth sbrink
Narrator: Joan Walker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-09-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.
This shift does not happen overnight, from one day to the next - instead the world vibrates for a number of years. People try to find their way back to homes that are no longer there or on to an uncertain future across the sea. Some run from their deeds, and most get away. Among the millions in flight across Europe looking for a new home in 1947 is Elisabeth sbrink's father.
In 1947, production begins of the Kalashnikov, Christian Dior creates the New Look, Simone de Beauvoir writes The Second Sex, the first actual computer bug is discovered, the CIA is set up, a clockmaker's son draws up the plan that remains the goal of jihadists to this day, and a UN committee is given four months to find a solution to the problem of Palestine.
In 1947, Elisabeth sbrink chronicles the creation of the modern world, as the forces that will go on to govern all our lives during the next 70 years first make themselves known.
Members Reviews:
1947: When Now Begins
Rather than taking a year and giving a full account of what happened during it, this book is something slightly different. Yes, the year is split by months; , but, while it is certainly factual, it is also full of poetic writing and is also quite personal at times. Although the book has a worldwide perspective, it is Eurocentric and takes a cast of characters (some you will have heard of, such as Christian Dior, Primo Levi and Simone de Beuvoir, while others are less well known, such as Raphael Lemkin) through the events of a traumatic and compelling period of history.
In 1947 the war may have finished, but Europe was in turmoil. The Cold War was beginning, a battered England threw up its hands and abandoned both Palestine and India, leaving Palestine to become someone elseâs problem, and leading to the partition of India. It could also no longer provide support to Iran, Turkey and Greece to hold off Soviet Intervention; directly leading to America having to step up and take over Britainâs role. As America offered to provide support to a Europe left with bombed cities and displaced people, the Soviet Union prevented Eastern Europe from receiving aid, widening the division between East and West.
It was a time of upheaval, conflict, movement and, yet, optimism (as well as changes in fashion and music, Thomas Mann releases âDoctor Faustusâ and George Orwell is hidden away writing â1984â). When Raphael Lemkin fought to have the concept of genocide accepted legally, while it was first used (although not in legal existence) at the Neuremberg trials that year. With ex-Naziâs fleeing to South America, many of those who survived the concentration camps found they were unwanted by America and Britain and tried to make it to Palestine. In all European countries, the war was still very close and very emotional. As Primo Levi attempted to publish his memoirs of his time in Auschwitz, his was a story that nobody was yet ready to hear and Holocaust deniers were already in existence, while Germany struggled to find a meaning to their recent history and dreamed of a united Europe.
This then is the chaotic world that Elisabeth sbrink writes about. A time of change, where much that happened then still resounds today. For example, she tells of Hasan al-Banna, who started the Muslim Brotherhood and pushed for Jihad in Palestine.
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Title: 1947: When Now Begins
Author: Elisabeth sbrink
Narrator: Joan Walker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-09-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.
This shift does not happen overnight, from one day to the next - instead the world vibrates for a number of years. People try to find their way back to homes that are no longer there or on to an uncertain future across the sea. Some run from their deeds, and most get away. Among the millions in flight across Europe looking for a new home in 1947 is Elisabeth sbrink's father.
In 1947, production begins of the Kalashnikov, Christian Dior creates the New Look, Simone de Beauvoir writes The Second Sex, the first actual computer bug is discovered, the CIA is set up, a clockmaker's son draws up the plan that remains the goal of jihadists to this day, and a UN committee is given four months to find a solution to the problem of Palestine.
In 1947, Elisabeth sbrink chronicles the creation of the modern world, as the forces that will go on to govern all our lives during the next 70 years first make themselves known.
Members Reviews:
1947: When Now Begins
Rather than taking a year and giving a full account of what happened during it, this book is something slightly different. Yes, the year is split by months; , but, while it is certainly factual, it is also full of poetic writing and is also quite personal at times. Although the book has a worldwide perspective, it is Eurocentric and takes a cast of characters (some you will have heard of, such as Christian Dior, Primo Levi and Simone de Beuvoir, while others are less well known, such as Raphael Lemkin) through the events of a traumatic and compelling period of history.
In 1947 the war may have finished, but Europe was in turmoil. The Cold War was beginning, a battered England threw up its hands and abandoned both Palestine and India, leaving Palestine to become someone elseâs problem, and leading to the partition of India. It could also no longer provide support to Iran, Turkey and Greece to hold off Soviet Intervention; directly leading to America having to step up and take over Britainâs role. As America offered to provide support to a Europe left with bombed cities and displaced people, the Soviet Union prevented Eastern Europe from receiving aid, widening the division between East and West.
It was a time of upheaval, conflict, movement and, yet, optimism (as well as changes in fashion and music, Thomas Mann releases âDoctor Faustusâ and George Orwell is hidden away writing â1984â). When Raphael Lemkin fought to have the concept of genocide accepted legally, while it was first used (although not in legal existence) at the Neuremberg trials that year. With ex-Naziâs fleeing to South America, many of those who survived the concentration camps found they were unwanted by America and Britain and tried to make it to Palestine. In all European countries, the war was still very close and very emotional. As Primo Levi attempted to publish his memoirs of his time in Auschwitz, his was a story that nobody was yet ready to hear and Holocaust deniers were already in existence, while Germany struggled to find a meaning to their recent history and dreamed of a united Europe.
This then is the chaotic world that Elisabeth sbrink writes about. A time of change, where much that happened then still resounds today. For example, she tells of Hasan al-Banna, who started the Muslim Brotherhood and pushed for Jihad in Palestine.