Tara Zahra Book order

A brilliant, eye-opening work of history that speaks volumes about today's battles over international trade, immigration, public health and global inequality.

A timely, myth-busting chronicle (Nature) and panoramic history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship.

World War II tore apart an unprecedented number of families. This is the heartbreaking story of the humanitarian organizations, governments, and refugees that tried to rehabilitate Europe’s lost children from the trauma of war, and in the process shaped Cold War ideology, ideals of democracy and human rights, and modern visions of the family.

Zahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents.