The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order.



A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic m...