Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics Keychains Against a lavish backdrop of

Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue

the air all round is thick with little grey sand-flies which bite disgustingly

the cunning Irish cop hunts for the conspirators among a population of more than eight million Germans

In this classic book

Five Lieutenants tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle on the Western Front in 1918

Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics Keychains Against a lavish backdrop ofDescription by Alexander Anievas Paperback Cataclysm 1914 brings together a number of leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many different aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War. The collection not only aims to examine the war itself, but seeks to visualize the conflict and all of its immediate consequences (such as the Bolshevik Revolution and the ascendancy of US hegemony) as a defining moment