Charles Emmerson: 3 books
1913
In Search of the World Before the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features-last...
by Charles Emmerson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain...
Crucible
The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A bold, revisionist account of World War I's lingering end, the bloody years that followed, and the Western world's reeling transformation.
In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to make his triumphal entry into the...