Experimental Blog #5

Comments on the book "Savage Century - Back to Barbarism" by Therese Delpech and translated by George Holoch

The female French author of this book seems so highly educated and informed, and writes so extremely well, although the translator probably also deserves significant credit, that I don't feel very qualified to say very much about her book.
The subject of the book is the 20th century history of Europe, or, more precisely, from 1905, it turns out to be a very significant year, to 2005, the year before the book was completed. Therese Delpech writes about world history and world events as probably only a Frenchwomen would or could.
Of all the many people that she writes about, she writes the most about Adolph Hitler, the subject of a short chapter, "An Unforeseeable Actor", and Joseph Stalin. She probably quotes and writes about Stalin more than Hitler. After all, Stalin was around in the world longer than Hitler, but they cover less than half of the period of time, that is, 1905 to 2005.
Among various other subjects, the author gives remarkable, and largely unexpected, reports on the countries of the Middle East, never very stable, it seems, and the more recent decades in Russia, China, and South and Southeast Asia.