1913: The Defiant Swan Song
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A sweeping work of narrative history, 1913: The Defiant Swan Song chronicles the last glittering year of the old European order, capturing the extraordinary tension between a world at the height of its confidence and one teetering on the edge of catastrophe. Virginia Cowles masterfully reconstructs the political intrigues, social upheavals, and cultural brilliance of 1913, illustrating how the crowned heads, statesmen, and ordinary citizens of Europe remained willfully blind to the storm gathering on the horizon. With vivid, journalistic precision, Cowles presents portraits of the key figures and nations whose ambitions and rivalries would soon ignite the First World War, rendering the period both intimate and sweeping in scope. The tone is at once elegiac and urgent, mourning the vanished world while unmasking the fatal miscalculations that doomed it, making this a compelling read for anyone drawn to the dramatic intersection of history and human folly.
Author: Virginia Cowles
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A sweeping work of narrative history, 1913: The Defiant Swan Song chronicles the last glittering year of the old European order, capturing the extraordinary tension between a world at the height of its confidence and one teetering on the edge of catastrophe. Virginia Cowles masterfully reconstructs the political intrigues, social upheavals, and cultural brilliance of 1913, illustrating how the crowned heads, statesmen, and ordinary citizens of Europe remained willfully blind to the storm gathering on the horizon. With vivid, journalistic precision, Cowles presents portraits of the key figures and nations whose ambitions and rivalries would soon ignite the First World War, rendering the period both intimate and sweeping in scope. The tone is at once elegiac and urgent, mourning the vanished world while unmasking the fatal miscalculations that doomed it, making this a compelling read for anyone drawn to the dramatic intersection of history and human folly.