Full name: The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

Author: David Reynolds Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393351286 0393351289

One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen merely as a distant preamble to World War II. In The Long Shadow critically acclaimed historian David Reynolds seeks to broaden our vision by assessing the impact of the Great War across the twentieth century. He shows how events in that turbulent century--particularly World War II, the Cold War, and the collapse of Communism--shaped and reshaped attitudes to 1914-18. By exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism, as well as art and poetry, The Long Shadow is stunningly broad in its historical perspective. Reynolds throws light on the vast expanse of the last century and explains why 1914-18 is a conflict that America is still struggling to comprehend. Forging connections between people, places, and ideas, The Long Shadow ventures across the traditional subcultures of historical scholarship to offer a rich and layered examination not only of politics, diplomacy, and security but also of economics, art, and literature. The result is a magisterial reinterpretation of the place of the Great War in modern history. Similar books: World War One by Norman Stone The Deluge by Adam Tooze The Vanquished by Robert Gerwarth The Lost History of 1914 by Jack Beatty July 1914 by Sean McMeekin The Beauty and the Sorrow by Peter Englund Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur Europe's Last Summer by David Fromkin The Origins of the First World War by James Joll A Mad Catastrophe by Geoffrey Wawro A Short History of World War I by James L. Stokesbury A World Undone by G. J. Meyer Ring of Steel by Alexander Watson Mud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan No Man's Land by John Toland 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent Shattered Sword by Jonathan Parshall Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose