Strikes, street-fighting and revolution convulsed much of the world.
Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed into ruins. The war shook the foundations of political and economic order across Eurasia. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new global order was being bornĪdam 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.
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. A First World War book with a difference: The Deluge explains why the Great War's legacy continues to shape the modern world
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