The Vanquished

An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I and shaped the course of the twentieth century. Winner of the Tomlinson Book Prize A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016 In The Vanquished , a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe’s future, but the devast