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THE DELUGE - ADAM TOOZE KARTONIERT (TB)

In the depths of the Great War  with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict 
societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued  a new global
order was being born. Adam Tooze's panoramic new book tells a radical  new story of the
struggle for global mastery from the battles of the Western Front in 1916 to the Great
Depression of the 1930s. The war shook the foundations of political and economic order across
Eurasia. Empires that had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed into ruins. New nations sprang
up. Strikes  street-fighting and revolution convulsed much of the world. And beneath the
surface turmoil  the war set in motion a deeper and more lasting shift  a transformation that
continues to shape the present day: 1916 was the year when world affairs began to revolve
around the United States. America was both a uniquely powerful global force: a force that was
forward-looking  the focus of hope  money and ideas  and at the same time elusive 
unpredictable and in fundamental respects unwilling to confront these unwished for
responsibilities. Tooze shows how the fate of effectively the whole of civilization - the
British Empire  the future of peace in Europe  the survival of the Weimar Republic  both the
Russian and Chinese revolutions and stability in the Pacific - now came to revolve around this
new power's fraught relationship with a shockingly changed world. The Deluge is both a
brilliantly illuminating exploration of the past and an essential history for the present.

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