A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period

A cutting-edge analysis of the interwar period as one fundamentally international in scope and deeply violent in nature.

World War I destroyed the world that had come before. It shattered three empires and fueled new nationalisms and ideologies that threatened to destroy those that remained. It left millions in its wake with military training and access to weaponry, creating networks of violence that would spread across much of the globe. This violence in the interwar period resulted in more...