The Resource A world on edge : the end of the great war and the dawn of a new age, Daniel Schönpflug ; translated by Jefferson Chase
A world on edge : the end of the great war and the dawn of a new age, Daniel Schönpflug ; translated by Jefferson Chase
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- Summary
- A World on Edge reveals Europe in 1918, left in ruins by World War I. But with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible, but essential, even unavoidable. Unorthodox ideas light up the age like the comets that have recently passed overhead: new politics, new societies, new art and culture, new thinking. The struggle to determine the future has begun. For rulers and revolutionaries, a world of power and privilege was dying while for others, a dream of overthrowing democracy was being born. With novelistic virtuosity, historian Daniel Schönpflug describes this watershed year as it was experienced on the ground open ended, unfathomable, its outcome unclear. Told from the vantage points of people, famous and ordinary, good and evil, who lived through the turmoil and combining a multitude of acutely observed details, Schönpflug composes a brilliantly conceived panorama of a world suspended between enthusiasm and disappointment, and of a moment in which the window of opportunity was suddenly open, only to quickly close shut once again
- Language
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- eng
- ger
- eng
- Edition
- Paperback edition.
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Note
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- Originally published in 2017 as 'Kometenjahre' by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH
- Translation first published in 2018 in the United States by Metropolitan Books
- Contents
-
- Dreamland
- Five:
- A deceptive peace
- Six:
- The end of the beginning
- Prologue
- One:
- The beginning of the end
- Two:
- A day and an hour
- Three:
- Revolutions
- Four:
- Isbn
- 9781509818518
- Label
- A world on edge : the end of the great war and the dawn of a new age
- Title
- A world on edge
- Title remainder
- the end of the great war and the dawn of a new age
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Schönpflug ; translated by Jefferson Chase
- Language
-
- eng
- ger
- eng
- Summary
- A World on Edge reveals Europe in 1918, left in ruins by World War I. But with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible, but essential, even unavoidable. Unorthodox ideas light up the age like the comets that have recently passed overhead: new politics, new societies, new art and culture, new thinking. The struggle to determine the future has begun. For rulers and revolutionaries, a world of power and privilege was dying while for others, a dream of overthrowing democracy was being born. With novelistic virtuosity, historian Daniel Schönpflug describes this watershed year as it was experienced on the ground open ended, unfathomable, its outcome unclear. Told from the vantage points of people, famous and ordinary, good and evil, who lived through the turmoil and combining a multitude of acutely observed details, Schönpflug composes a brilliantly conceived panorama of a world suspended between enthusiasm and disappointment, and of a moment in which the window of opportunity was suddenly open, only to quickly close shut once again
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- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Schönpflug, Daniel
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- Translated from the German
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Chase, Jefferson S.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- History, Modern
- World War, 1914-1918
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A world on edge : the end of the great war and the dawn of a new age, Daniel Schönpflug ; translated by Jefferson Chase
- Note
-
- Originally published in 2017 as 'Kometenjahre' by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH
- Translation first published in 2018 in the United States by Metropolitan Books
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
-
- Dreamland
- Five:
- A deceptive peace
- Six:
- The end of the beginning
- Prologue
- One:
- The beginning of the end
- Two:
- A day and an hour
- Three:
- Revolutions
- Four:
- Control code
- p2251289173
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- Paperback edition.
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781509818518
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- A world on edge : the end of the great war and the dawn of a new age, Daniel Schönpflug ; translated by Jefferson Chase
- Note
-
- Originally published in 2017 as 'Kometenjahre' by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH
- Translation first published in 2018 in the United States by Metropolitan Books
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
-
- Dreamland
- Five:
- A deceptive peace
- Six:
- The end of the beginning
- Prologue
- One:
- The beginning of the end
- Two:
- A day and an hour
- Three:
- Revolutions
- Four:
- Control code
- p2251289173
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Edition
- Paperback edition.
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781509818518
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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