El diluvio

The Great War of 1914-1918 completely transformed the world in which we live, ruining the stability that the great empires of Eurasia had maintained since the Middle Ages. Adam Tooze has undertaken in this book the ambitious task of analyzing these transformations, on a journey that starts from the battlefields and takes us to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The first culprits for losing this opportunity to establish a lasting peace were the United States, which, having reached a degree of power never before known in history, was responsible for signing a "peace without victory", and disengaged after its consequences. But they were not the only ones; Tooze integrates into his story the revolutions in Russia and China, the disastrous politics of France and Great Britain or the collapse of Weimar Germany in a book that, in the opinion of Max Hastings, accredits him as "a formidable chronicler of an era crucial part of our history".