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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
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English
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"1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian David Stevenson examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows how in this one year the war was transformed, but also what drove the conflict onwards and how it continued to escalate."--Inside dust jacket.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2017.
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English
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"A riveting history of the month that transformed the world's greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I. "We are provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson's declaration, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, ending a three-centuries-long...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Arthur Herman examines one crucial year and the two figures at its centre who would set the course of modern world history: Woodrow Wilson and Vladimir Leninches In this incisive, fast-paced history, Herman brilliantly explores the birth of a potent rivalry between two men who rewrote the rules of geopolitics - and the moment, one hundred years ago, when our contemporary world began. Print run 75,000.
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