- Published: 15 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781409089773
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
The Long Road Home
The Aftermath of the Second World War
- Published: 15 April 2011
- ISBN: 9781409089773
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
(Even today, thousands of people displaced by the Second World War remain unaccounted for)The Long Road Home speaks for them by proxy and with proper sympathy
Ian Thompson, Sunday Telegraph
[A] well researched and comprehensive account
Caroline Moorehead, Spectator
A thoughtful retelling of an important and timely story
Alan Allport, Literary Review
Ben Shephard's account of his demanding and important subject is a triumph, His has unearthed new and moving testimony by former DPs and has burrowed into official and personal papers without ever letting his deep scholarship get in the way of the riveting story he has to tell...With a sureness of touch he interweaves the personal stories of those who were involved in the allied relief effort at all levels ...For anyone who is curious about the coalition of interests and beliefs which slide across this particularly American see-saw, reading Shepherd's brilliant book is a must
Nicholas Stargardt, History Today
Ben Shephard's impressively readable account is replete with detailed personal testimony
Tim Kirk, TLS
Ben Shephard's impressively readable account is replete with detailed personal testimony. It is a reminder not only of the real achievements of relief workers in the 1940s, but also of the continuing problem of refugees across the globe, many of whom - as in Iraq - have suffered the consequences of far less satisfactory programmes of relief and reconstruction.
TLS
Deeply impressive... Well researched, well-written and often moving
New Statesman
Excellent book... his research is meticulous
Independent
Here Shephard skilfully weaves the story into that of the other armies....and how (it) is richly told
Dr David Stafford, BBC History Magazine
It's amazing, a really fine achievement and has a wonderful balance between argument and narration, where the individual stories draw the reader into the moral and emotional complexities, while the sense of structure and proportion gives it a very strong sense of being in safe hands
Nick Stargardt, author of 'Witnesses of War'
Lively and well-researched
Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times
Shephard does not seek to draw pat lessons or modern conclusions from any of this. He is content to tell us what happened next, in detail, and often vividly...a riveting and often entirely fresh story, shrewdly assembled, very well told.
Peter Preston, Guardian