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The vanquished : why the First World War failed to end  Cover Image Book Book

The vanquished : why the First World War failed to end

Gerwarth, Robert (author.).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374537180
  • ISBN: 0374537186
  • Physical Description: print
    446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First American paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published in 2016 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-418) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Defeat. A train journey in spring ; Russian revolutions ; Brest-Litovsk ; A taste of victory ; Reversals of fortune -- Revolution and counter-revolution. No end to war ; The Russian civil wars ; The apparent triumph of democracy ; Radicalization ; Fear of Bolshevism and the rise of Fascism -- Imperial collapse. Pandora's box : Paris and the problem of empire ; Reinventing East-central Europe ; Vae victis ; Fiume ; From Smyrna to Lausanne -- The "post-war" and Europe's mid-century crisis.
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence
World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Europe
War and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Ethnic conflict -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Political violence -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes
Europe -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945
Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Genre: History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Castlegar Campus Library D 523 G478 2016 (Text)
Copy: c. 1
B001578863 General Volume hold Available -

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