{"title":"Robert Gerwarth","description":"Robert Gerwarth is professor of modern history at University College Dublin and the director of its Centre for War Studies. He is the author of The Bismarck Myth and Hitler's Hangman, a biography of Reinhard Heydrich. He has studied and taught in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.","products":[{"product_id":"the-vanquished-why-the-first-world-war-failed-to-end-paperback","title":"The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Tomlinson Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I--conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the Western Allies, November 11, 1918, has always been a solemn date--the end of fighting that had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of the principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Vanquished\u003c\/i\u003e, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and further major military clashes. In the years immediately after the armistice, millions would die across central, eastern, and southeastern Europe before the Soviet Union and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states would come into being. It was here, in the ruins of Europe, that extreme ideologies such as fascism would take shape and ultimately emerge triumphant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs absorbing in its drama as it is unsettling in its analysis, \u003ci\u003eThe Vanquished\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to transform our understanding of not just the First World War but the twentieth century as a whole.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365899731167,"sku":"9780374537180","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/d7UOFoqzhS9780374537180.webp?v=1789073669"},{"product_id":"november-1918-the-german-revolution-hardcover","title":"November 1918: The German Revolution - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Gerwarth argues here that to view the German Revolution in this way is a serious misjudgement. Not only did it bring down the authoritarian monarchy of the Hohenzollern, it also brought into being the first ever German democracy in an amazingly bloodless way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the dramatic events between the last months of the First World War in 1918 and Hitler's Munich Putsch of 1923, Robert Gerwarth illuminates the fundamental and deep-seated ways in which the November Revolution changed Germany. In doing so, he reminds us that, while it is easy with the benefit of hindsight to write off the 1918 Revolution as a 'failure', this failure was not somehow pre-ordained. In 1918, the fate of the German Revolution remained very much an open book.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367725957343,"sku":"9780199546473","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Pfr5_7mOep9780199546473.webp?v=1789113383"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/robert-gerwarth.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}