Adam Tooze

Broschiertes Buch

The Deluge

The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931

Beschreibung

On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this book offers an explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world. It tells a radical, new story of the struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Autor

Adam Tooze is Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He taught for many years at the University of Cambridge. His last book, The Wages of Destruction, was universally acclaimed as one of the most important books written on the Third Reich. It was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and won both the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize and the Wolfson Prize for History.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9780141032184
• ISBN-10: 0141032189
• Artikelnr.: 41556892

Rezensionen

Bold and ambitious . . . probably the best of the current books about the First World War Observer