Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 Literature Using the words of the

Using the words of the veterans themselves

David Lewis

including the events of 1917 and who might really have been responsible for the story

and seeks to reconstitute our understanding of this war as a truly global struggle between competing empires

but in small numbers

Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924 Literature Using the words of theDescription By Charles Emmerson Hardcover The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible is filled with all too human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chance In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who