Название: The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power and Guilt
Автор: Peter Clarke
Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf/epub/azw3 (conv.)
Страниц: 432
Размер: 10.3 Mb
Язык: English
A fresh and fascinating reappraisal of the first half of the twentieth century from one of our foremost historians 'War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, 'is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be acknowledging the opportunity the First World War had offered the Bolsheviks to seize power in Russia in 1917. Twentieth-century warfare, based on new technologies and mass armies, certainly saw the locomotive power of war geared up to an unprecedented level. Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the twentieth century through the eyes of five major figures.