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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.
Ricochets the reader around the globe, providing a visceral sense of the power and pace of the whirlwind that in the wake the Great War birthed the world as we know it. The result is a kaleidoscopic portrait, brilliantly curated and elegantly executed, of a world on the cusp of modernity * Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence * A remarkable book... An amazingly audacious and completely innovative way of writing history ... immediate and gripping -- William Boyd An ambitious, original, seductive and important work -- Robert Gildea Brings this extraordinary time to life with great vividness by evoking key moments from the daily lives of a dazzling variety of people -- Adam Hochschild Emmerson skilfully tells the story of this lingering end to the Great War and Europe's subsequent and dramatic transformation * History of War *
