{"product_id":"crucible-the-long-end-of-the-great-war-and-the-birth-of-a-new-world-1917-1924-9781784703691","title":"Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917–1924","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping . . . An amazingly audacious and completely innovative way of writing history' WILLIAM BOYD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enthralling narrative history with an international cast of characters that captures this definitive period after the close of the Great War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLenin and Hitler, Einstein and Hemingway, Josephine Baker and Rosa Luxemburg, Marcus Garvey and Mustafa Kemal: key players and participants in a world on the cusp of modernity, at a moment when anything seemed possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the First World War reaches its awful climax, a shockwave of creative destruction is released. Europe is torn apart by revolution. America is in flames. A deadly pandemic stalks the globe. The curtain rises on a dangerous and exciting new era not unlike our own: of populists and prophets, freedom fighters and fascists, radical new ideas and clashing ideologies contesting an uncertain future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrucible \u003c\/i\u003eis the collective diary of this era, filled with vaulting dreams, dark fears, grubby ambitions and the absurdities of chance. Encompassing both tragedy and humour, it brings immediacy and intimacy to a moment of deep historical transformation - with consequences that echo down to today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dazzling . . . A compelling patchwork depiction of an era' \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This buoyant study of life after the Great War illuminates the part that chance plays in history' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRicochets the reader around the globe, providing a visceral sense of the power and pace of the whirlwind that in the wake the Great War birthed the world as we know it. The result is \u003cb\u003ea kaleidoscopic portrait, brilliantly curated and elegantly executed, of a world on the cusp of modernity\u003c\/b\u003e * Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA remarkable book… An amazingly audacious and completely innovative way of writing history … immediate and gripping\u003c\/b\u003e -- William Boyd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ambitious, original, seductive and important work\u003c\/b\u003e -- Robert Gildea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrings this extraordinary time to life with great vividness\u003c\/b\u003e by evoking key moments from the daily lives of a dazzling variety of people -- Adam Hochschild\u003cbr\u003eEmmerson skilfully tells the story of this lingering end to the Great War and Europe’s subsequent and dramatic transformation * History of War *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52091181465943,"sku":"9781784703691","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crucible-the-long-end-of-the-great-war-and-the-birth-of-a-new-world-1917-1924-9781784703691","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}