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"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"--Provided by publisher. "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, and 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 nightmarish series of conflicts would soon engulf 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, in which countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes. 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 came into being. It was here, in the ruins of Europe, that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape and ultimately emerge triumphant. 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 twentieth century as a whole"--Provided by publisher.

World War, 1914-1918 --- War and society --- Ethnic conflict --- Political violence --- World War, 1939-1945 --- HISTORY / Military / World War I. --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. --- Ethnic conflict. --- Ethnic relations. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Political violence. --- Politics and government. --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- War and society. --- War --- Influence. --- Social aspects --- History --- Causes. --- World War (1914-1918) --- World War (1939-1945) --- 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Europe. --- Ethnic relations --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- World War (1914-1918). --- World War (1939-1945). --- 1900-1999. --- History / europe / general. --- History / military / world war i. --- History / modern / 20th century. --- Influence (literary, artistic, etc.). --- World war, 1914-1918 --- World war, 1939-1945

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Europe --- History --- History of Europe --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1920-1929

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The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. Robert Gerwarth argues here that to view the German Revolution in this way is a serious misjudgment. Not only did it bring down the authoritarian monarchy of the Hohenzollern, it also brought into being the first ever German democracy in an amazingly bloodless way. Focusing on the dramatic events between the last months of the First World War in 1918 and Hitler's Munich Putsch of 1923, Robert Gerwarth illuminates the fundamental and deep-seated ways in which the November Revolution changed Germany. In doing so, he reminds us that, while it is easy with the benefit of hindsight to write off the 1918 Revolution as a 'failure', this failure was not somehow pre-ordained. In 1918, the fate of the German Revolution remained very much an open book.

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History of Europe --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929

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Heydrich, Reinhard