Books by Paul Betts

4. Paul Betts, Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II .  The immediate aftermath of WWII was the last time the Western world was truly chaotic, and this book captures that time well, including its intellectual milieu.  Are you interested in how West and East German books of manners differed in the late 1940s and 1950s?  If so, this is your go-to book.