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The Vanquished : Why the First World War Failed to End by Robert Gerwarth (2016,
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- ISBN
- 9780374282455
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374282455
ISBN-13
9780374282455
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219082534
Product Key Features
Book Title
Vanquished : Why the First World War Failed to End
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Military / World War II, Sociology / General, Military / World War I, Violence in Society, Europe / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
25.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-032496
Reviews
"Gerwarth provides an essential contribution to our understanding of the interwar years." --Jay Freeman, Booklist "Controversial, persuasive, and impressively documented." -- Publishers Weekly "The first study of the disorders that shook all the defeated states of Europe following World War . . . In this extensively researched and crisply written account, Gerwarth explores the political and military upheavals throughout central Europe . . . A thorough explanation for the rise of the nationalist and fascist groups who set the stage for World War II." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Controversial, persuasive, and impressively documented." -- Publishers Weekly "The first study of the disorders that shook all the defeated states of Europe following World War . . . In this extensively researched and crisply written account, Gerwarth explores the political and military upheavals throughout central Europe . . . A thorough explanation for the rise of the nationalist and fascist groups who set the stage for World War II." -- Kirkus Reviews, Praise for Hitler's Hangman "This admirable biography makes plausible what actually happened and makes human what we might prefer to dismiss as monstrous." - Timothy Snyder, The Wall Street Journal "Supremely enlightening." - Jacob Heilbrunn, The New York Times Book Review
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
940.51
Table Of Content
PART I: DEFEAT A Train Journey in Spring Russian Revolutions Brest-Litovsk The Taste of Victory Reversals of Fortune PART II: Revolution and Counter-Revolution No End to War The Russian Civil Wars The Apparent Triumph of Democracy Radicalization Fear of Bolshevism and the Rise of Fascism PART III: Imperial Collapse Pandora's Box: Paris and the Problem of Empire Reinventing East-Central Europe Vae Victis Fiume From Smyrna to Lausanne Epilogue: The "Post-War" and Europe's Mid-Century Crisis
Synopsis
Winner of the Tomlinson Book Prize A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016 An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century For the Western Allies, November 11, 1918, has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of the principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. In The Vanquished , a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes. In the years immediately after the armistice, millions would die across central, eastern, and southeastern Europe before the Soviet Union and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states would come into being. It was here, in the ruins of Europe, that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape and ultimately emerge triumphant. As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, The Vanquished is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but the twentieth century as a whole., Winner of the Tomlinson Book Prize A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016 An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century. For the Western Allies, November 11, 1918, has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of the principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. In The Vanquished , a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes. In the years immediately after the armistice, millions would die across central, eastern, and southeastern Europe before the Soviet Union and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states would come into being. It was here, in the ruins of Europe, that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape and ultimately emerge triumphant. As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, The Vanquished is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but the twentieth century as a whole.
LC Classification Number
D523.G478 2016
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