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The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order
by Adam Tooze.
Allen Lane, 672 pp., £30, May 2014,978 1 84614 034 1 Show More
by Adam Tooze.
Allen Lane, 672 pp., £30, May 2014,
“... A common and still widely accepted story of the origin of the Second World War is that it was the direct result of what happened in 1919 at the end of the Great War. The French were recklessly vengeful towards the defeated, the British callously indifferent to what was happening on the Continent, and the Americans smugly isolationist. The Allies made Germany sign a humiliating treaty and forced it to pay exorbitant reparations, enabling the rise of the Nazis to power ... ”