Charles Emmerson

Crucible

The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924

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Produktbeschreibung

A bold, revisionist account of World War I's lingering end, the bloody years that followed, and the Western world's reeling transformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublicAffairs
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 61mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9781610397827
• ISBN-10: 1610397827
• Artikelnr.: 48965950

Autorenporträt

Charles Emmerson is a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House working on resource security, foreign policy, and global geopolitics. He is the author of The Future History of the Arctic and 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War. He was formerly a writer for the Financial Times and continues to publish regularly on international affairs. He lives in London, England.

Rezensionen

Ricochets the reader around the globe, providing a visceral sense of the power and pace of the whirlwind that in the wake the Great War birthed the world as we know it. The result is a kaleidoscopic portrait, brilliantly curated and elegantly executed, of a world on the cusp of modernity Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence