A portrait of a world on the precipice of war - and the brink of globalisation.
CHARLES EMMERSON was born in Australia and grew up in London. After graduating top of his class in Modern History from Oxford University he took up an Entente Cordiale scholarship to study international relations and international public law in Paris. The author of The Future History of the Arctic (2010), he writes and speaks widely on international affairs. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs).
Every so often a book comes along that simply must be read. 1913 is
such a work. Luminous and majestic, rich in detail and stunning in
its depth of research, 1913 is a sweeping and haunting portrait of
the world on the edge of the precipice… Read this book, but be
prepared to stifle at the end of every page an urge to scream out a
warning to those long since dead that they must take another
road
*Wade Davis*
Charles Emmerson explores an endlessly interesting question: How
did the great glossy world of the European Empires come to grief in
1914? This is a most elegantly written book and should stand
comparison with the much older classic, Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud
Tower
*PROFESSOR NORMAN STONE, author of World War One: A Short
History*
A masterful, comprehensive portrait of the world at that last
moment in its history…
*Spectator*
If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was
like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful
corrective
*Scotsman*
One of the great merits of Charles Emmerson’s global panorama is to
show events in the months leading up to the summer of 1914 as
something other than a precursor to mass slaughter
*New Statesman*
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