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446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm "A pathbreaking account of the continuing ethnic and state violence after the end of WWI-- conflicts that more than anything else set the stage for WWII"-- "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, an

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Author

Gerwarth, Robert, author

Publisher

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374537180

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.16 / 5 (200 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14