The vanquished why the First World War failed to end, 1917-1923

✍ Scribed by Robert Gerwarth

• Book ID: 100107014
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd;Allen Lane
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0141976365

✦ Synopsis

'This war is not the end but the beginning of violence. It is the forge in which the world will be hammered into new borders and new communities. New molds want to be filled with blood, and power will be wielded with a hard fist.' Ernst Jünger (1918)

For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation, and also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of their 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 this highly original, gripping book 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 which proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as...