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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 The Long 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, The Long Shadow throws 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 Shadow is a magisterial and seismic re-presentation of the Great War.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Long Shadow
• Author: David Reynolds
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544
• EAN: 9780857206374
• ISBN: 0857206370
• ID: 02676201
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Weight: 410 g
• Dimensions: 201 × 147 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. September 2014

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