1913: The World before the Great War

ISBN-13: 9780099575788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 544 str.

Charles Emmerson

Opis

Through the stories of cities from Detroit to Bombay, Winnipeg to Durban, Tokyo to Algiers, the author reveals a year in which a truly global society was emerging for the first time in human history. He proposes a different and more expansive portrait of 1913, returning this world to its contemporary freshness.

Recenzje

Every so often a book comes along that simply must be read. 1913 is such a work. Luminous and majestic, rich in detail and stunning in its depth of research, 1913 is a sweeping and haunting portrait of the world on the edge of the precipice... Read this book, but be prepared to stifle at the end of every page an urge to scream out a warning to those long since dead that they must take another road Wade Davis

O autorze

CHARLES EMMERSON is an Australian-born writer and historian. He studied modern history at Oxford University and international relations in Paris. He is the author of The Future History of the Arctic and 1913: The World Before the Great War. He lives in London.