The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age
Daniel SchÖnpflug
The story of the aftermath of World War I, a transformative time when a new world seemed possible—told from the vantage of people, famous and ordinary, who lived through the turmoil.
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“Daniel Schönpflug has written the historian’s version of John Dos Passos’ epic novel U.S.A.—now with global protagonists whose kaleidoscopic biographies let us experience the jagged transition from the First World War into an unsettled era of artistic innovation, political promise, disillusion, and violence.”
— Charles S. Maier
author of Once Within Borders
“For a brief moment a century ago the end of the Great War offered peace and the prospect of a bright new social order to a dark, ravaged Europe. In his moving and inspired book, historian Daniel Schönpflug recreates how these days were experienced by the people who lived them—their struggles, dreams, and desires—and traces the elusive fate of their noble visions. An evocative and deeply affecting requiem for what might have been.”
— Douglas Smith
author of Rasputin
Daniel SchÖnpflug
