The Deluge

From our generation's foremost economic historian, a searing analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermathIn the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle: The heart of the financial systemshifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and material reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economicand political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial fabric.A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects.From the moment the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze brings into new precision the world remade by American economic and military power. Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms...