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The Long Shadow - The Great War and the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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The Long Shadow - The Great War and the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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List price R341
Loot Price R228
Discovery Miles 2 280
You Save R113 (33%)
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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.
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