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Empires at War - 1911-1923 by Robert Gerwarth (Editor); Erez Manela (Editor)
Category: History | Series: The\Greater War Ser.
Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states. The volume expands the story of the war both in time and space t ...Show more
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth
Category: Military
"Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, a ...Show more
November 1918 - The German Revolution by Robert Gerwarth
Category: History | Series: The\Making of the Modern World Ser.
The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come.Robert Gerwarth argues here that to view the Germ ...Show more
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
Category: Military
'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 Junger (1918) For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always be ...Show more
The Vanquished - Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
Category: History
In this highly original and 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 countries on both sides of the original ...Show more
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