Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
8 best books like Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Modris Eksteins): To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss, Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, The World of Yesterday, The Great War and Modern Memory, Dreadnought, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
| Author | Adam Hochschild |
| ISBN | 0618758283 |
World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
| Author | Edmund de Waal |
| ISBN | 0374105979 |
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none...
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
| Author | Margaret MacMillan |
| ISBN | 0375760520 |
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever written about those fateful months after World War I when the maps of Europe were redrawn. Brimming with lucid analysis, elegant character sketches, and geopolitical pathos, it is essential reading.'
Between...
| Author | Siegfried Sassoon |
| ISBN | 1931313814 |
”I, single human being with my little stock of earthly experience in my head, was entering once again the veritable gloom and disaster of the thing called Armageddon. And I saw it then as I see it now---a dreadful place, a place of horror and desolation which no imagination could have invented. Also...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 0803252242 |
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction....
| Author | Paul Fussell |
| ISBN | 0195133323 |
The year 2000 marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most original and gripping volumes ever written about the First World War. Fussell illuminates a war that changed a generation and revolutionised the way we see the world. He explores the British experience on the western Front from 1914 to 1918,...
| Author | Robert K. Massie |
| ISBN | 0345375564 |
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth...
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
| Author | Daniel Okrent |
| ISBN | 0743277023 |
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel...
