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Crucible: The Long End of the Great War & the Birth of a New World 1917-1924

Author: Charles Emmerson.

Crucible: The Long End of the Great War & the Birth of a New World 1917-1924

Author: Charles Emmerson.

$35.00 $7.98
Item #: D11985
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 752
Publication Date: 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 9781610397827
As the Tsar is packed off to Siberia, exile Vladimir Lenin returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home, while an Austrian war veteran begins to rail against the Jews. Much as he did in 1913, Charles Emmerson offers a panoramic view of the world in upheaval, as women... More
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As the Tsar is packed off to Siberia, exile Vladimir Lenin returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home, while an Austrian war veteran begins to rail against the Jews. Much as he did in 1913, Charles Emmerson offers a panoramic view of the world in upheaval, as women win the vote, jazz becomes the music of choice, and former patent clerk Albert Einstein changes our view of how the universe works. Anecdotal yet vast in scope, this history's cast of characters includes Josephine Baker, Ernest Hemingway, Marcus Garvey, Rosa Luxemburg, Sigmund Freud, André Breton, Benito Mussolini, and Mustafa Kemal.


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