The Long Shadow
€15.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780857206374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Reynolds |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.396 |
| Publishing Date | 11/09/2014 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €15.00 |
| Tax | €0.90 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.90 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In TheLong Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War''s legacies were negative and pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism and re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland and the United States,TheLong Shadowthrows light on the whole of the last century and demonstrates that 1914-18 is a conflict that Britain, more than any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend.
Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadowis a magisterial and seismic re-presentation of the Great War.