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The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End Paperback / softback - 2017

by Professor of Modern History Robert Gerwarth

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  • Title The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
  • Author Professor of Modern History Robert Gerwarth
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date 2017-11-07
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780374537180
  • ISBN 9780374537180 / 0374537186
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Social conditions
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.51
  • Quantity available 10

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From the publisher

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.

About the author

Robert Gerwarth is professor of modern history at University College Dublin and the director of its Centre for War Studies. He is the author of The Bismarck Myth and Hitler's Hangman, a biography of Reinhard Heydrich. He has studied and taught in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.

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