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 The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts
   Aftermath of War
     The Legacy Aspect



The Vanquished: Why The First World War Failed to End, 1917 - 1923

by Robert Gerwarth  

ISBN
9781846148118

Purchase Price
£25.00 (new)

Date Purchased
August 31, 2016

Publisher
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books (2016, London)

Notes
The reader of this book is asked to consider the true legacy of the Great War. Gerwarth proposes that it was not so much the fighting, especially on the Western Front, that proved so ruinous to the future of Europe, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the conflict were wrecked by revolution, pogroms, mass expulsions and further major military clashes. Millions more died across, particularly, Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe before the USSR and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states came into being. Gerwarth develops this theme and links these events with the rise of the Third Reich and the resumption of conflict world-wide.