The vast case of the ethnic cleansing of Germans, the "Expulsion," forms an important part of the book. Fifteen contributors deal with the expulsions of Germans from East Central Europe from one standpoint or another. This extensive share seems in no way out of place, since the expulsion of sixteen million ethnic Germans from half a dozen European countries, at a loss of over two million lives, constitutes an episode which surely merits attention but which has been neglected by all but a handful of historians. The contemporaneous ethnic cleansing of Hungarian populations, mentioned above, will be a familiar topic to even fewer readers.