Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War

ANDERSON Perry

Published by Verso Books 2024

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8vo, hardcover in dj. A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War In A Sextet on the Great War, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration. Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guilt Pierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the conflict in France Luigi Albertini, the Italian newspaper tycoon who unlike any other scholar on the Grear War was himself a leading actor in pitching his country into it Paul W. Schroeder, the American expert on the system of European interstate relations and its breakdown in 1914 Keith Wilson, the one radical deviant from a patriotic consensus in Britain about the country s role in the outbreak of the fighting From Australia (a dominion dragooned into the Great War by the British), Christopher Clark, acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers and Revolutionary Spring.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War
• Publisher: Verso Books 2024
• Binding: Hard Cover in Dj
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
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