
The Vanquished
Why the First World War Failed to End
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Michael Page
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Robert Gerwarth
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, and further major military clashes. If the war itself had in most places been a struggle mainly between state-backed soldiers, these new conflicts were predominantly perpetrated by civilians and paramilitaries and driven by a murderous sense of injustice projected onto enemies real and imaginary. In the years immediately after the armistice, millions would die across central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe before the Soviet Union and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states would come into being. It was here, in the ruins of Europe, that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape.
As absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, The Vanquished is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but the 20th century as a whole.
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"Gerwarth's fascinating and finely crafted book is a rich combination of military, political, cultural and social history...an impressive work of highly accessible scholarship." (The Irish Times)
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That is only part of Gerwarth's story, and I confess that I would be even more pleased with the book if it were double its length. But this book does expand the post WW I discussion from simply being an introduction to how Germany and the USSR ended up in WW II. Gerwarth describes the years 1918 - 1923 not as setup for Hitler, but he brings out the seminal problems that the Germans faced in these years, Hitler or no Hitler. This book may be confusing to some as Gerwarth moves from country to country, but the way that he does that links all the countries into a whole which helps to explain the period. And he does write about each country in its own right. This was good enough for me that I wanted more. And I don't say that often.
And I can't imagine a better narrator than Michael Page. But as with many Audible non-fiction books, I miss the maps, photos, and footnotes. This time, I did track a hard copy down and that helped my comprehension.
what we Americans are not taught
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informative and compelling read
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The Vanquished
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Great overview
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Useful Review of an Underexamined Period
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little-known period following WWI is illuminated
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Outstanding
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For those who would know
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Very interesting
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Vanquished - will there ever be unity?
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