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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Kings Departdi Richard M. Watt
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Brilliant vivid and clarifying. The period is badly familiar to me; I've read for example Macmillan's Peacemakers, a whole book on the Versailles conference, so we all know what a messs that was.. But this brings Versailles and the events in Germany together. I hadn't realised how the Weimar Republic was really just a facade, near to a failed state; the Army still held a veto on practical everything and beyond them were the Freikorps, almost literally a loose cannon, efficient killers, answering only to themselves. Wilson gets a fair hatchet job, how strange to think of a professor being President of the U.S; a classic democrat in theory, inflexible bully in practice. I'd also not realised how the war more or less continued in the East, the Freikorps again. The naive greed of the Poles also features, leading to their fate in WW2. Hitler just sewed all these things up which were on their way; if it hadn't been him someone else would cercainlyhave done the job. ( ) After reading and enjoying Dare Call It Treason, Watt's excellent history of the French mutinies in World War I, I put this book on my list, and liked it even more. The Kings Depart is a broad ranging, fascinating, well-written, highly readable account of an important period in history that I knew little about, despite having read a lot about the first and second world wars. What more would you want in a history book? If you want to understand how the first world war led to the second, consider this book required reading. Watt's Bitter Glory: Poland & Its Fate 1918-1939 is next on my list. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Richard M Watt's book unfolds the story of 1918-19, that fateful year that saw the tragedy of Germany, soon to become the tragedy of Europe. In 1918 came the brief moment when the victorious Allies at the Versailles Conference had the opportunity - by means of a peace with justice - to set up democracy in central Europe. THE KINGS DEPART tells of their failure - of the Allies' rapacity which drove a ruined Germany to seek vengeance, of Germany's terrible collapse into anarchy and Red revolution and her even more frightful salvation at the hands of the army and the Freikorps, of the appearance of the swastika banner and right-wing terrorists and adventurers awaiting their Fuhrer. First published in 1969. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)943.085History and Geography Europe Germany and central Europe Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Weimar Republic 1918-1933Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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