The age of catastrophe a history of the West, 1914-1945

Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history of the West. A noted scholar of modern German history, Heinrich August Winkler examines how and why Germany so radically broke with the normative...

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Main Author: Winkler, Heinrich August (Author)
Other Authors: Spencer, Stewart (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • The twentieth century's seminal catastrophe: the First World War
  • From the Armistice to the world economic crisis : 1918-33
  • Democracies and dictatorships: 1933-9
  • Fault lines in western civilization: The Second World War and the Holocaust