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The Deluge by Tooze, Adam
ISBN: 9780141032184 PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 672 PUBLICATION DATE: 5.03.2015 DIMENSIONS: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.9 centimetres 15.5 ounces
DESCRIPTION: This book is the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Financial Times and New Statesman Books of the Year 2014. On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was being born. Adam Tooze's panoramic new book 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. The war shook the foundations of political and economic order across Eurasia. Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed into ruins. New nations sprang up. Strikes, street-fighting and revolution convulsed much of the world. And beneath the surface turmoil, the war set in motion a deeper and more lasting shift, a transformation that continues to shape the present day: 1916 was the year when world affairs began to revolve around the United States. America was both a uniquely powerful global force: a force that was forward-looking, the focus of hope, money and ideas, and at the same time elusive, unpredictable and in fundamental respects unwilling to confront these unwished for responsibi
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