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Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
Contributor(s): Emmerson, Charles (Author)

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 ISBN: 1610397827     ISBN-13: 9781610397827
Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Military - World War I
- History | Europe - General
- History | United States - 20th Century
Dewey: 940.51
Physical Information: 2.4" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" L (2.25 lbs) 752 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2019
 
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Publisher Description:
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
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.
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.
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.
 
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