Crucible - by Charles Emmerson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A bold, revisionist account of World War I's lingering end, the bloody years that followed, and the Western world's reeling transformation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chance</b><br>In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home. An Austrian war veteran trained by the German army to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. A solar eclipse turns a former patent clerk into a celebrity. An American reporter living the high life in Paris searches out a new literary style.<br>Lenin and Hitler, Josephine Baker and Ernest Hemingway, Rosa Luxemburg and Mustafa Kemal--these are some of the protagonists in this dramatic panorama of a world in turmoil. Revolutions and civil wars erupt across Europe. A red scare hits America. Women win the vote. Marching tunes are syncopated into jazz. The real becomes surreal.<br>Encompassing both tragedy and humor, the celebrated author of 1913 brings immediacy and intimacy to this moment of deep historical transformation that molded the world we would come to inherit.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Charles Emmerson</b> is a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House working on resource security, foreign policy, and global geopolitics. He is the author of <i>The Future History of the Arctic</i> and <i>1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War</i>. He was formerly a writer for the <i>Financial Times</i> and continues to publish regularly on international affairs. He lives in London, England.
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