14-18 by Catherine Temerson

14-18 by Catherine Temerson

With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker have shown that the Great War was the matrix on which all subsequent disasters of the twentieth century were formed. Three elements of the conflict, all too often neglected or denied, are identified as those that must be grasped if we are to understand the war: First, what inspired its unprecedented physical brutality, and what were the effects of tolerating such violence? Second, how did citizens of the belligerent states come to be driven by vehement nationalistic and racist impulses? Third, how did the tens of millions bereaved by the war come to terms with the agonizing pain? With its strikingly original interpretative strength and its wealth of compelling documentary evidence drawn from all sides in the conflict, 14-18: Understanding the Great War has quickly established itself as a classic in the history of modern warfare.

B. Annette Becker, Annette Becker, Annette Becker, Annette Becker A. was born in Waldshut in 1986. Ihr Bachelorstudium, a hybrid of economic sciences, economic law, sinology, and intercultural communication, was awarded a prize at the HTWG Konstanz in 2011. During her studies, the author accumulated practical experience through a variety of internships in China, Germany, and Switzerland, where she worked in corporate consulting and a bank. The Asian Cultural Circle, particularly the Chinese Cultural Circle, is known for their interest in a variety of kultur- and country-wide aspects of their studies, as well as their overseas years. The author's knowledge is further enhanced by her Master of Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bayreuth.