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Learn moreIn 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 moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. From the day the United States entered the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and military power. Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms with America's centrality—including the slide into fascism—The Deluge is a chilling work of great originality that will fundamentally change how we view the legacy of World War I.
Adam Tooze is the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and codirector of International Security Studies at Yale University. He won the 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History. His groundbreaking work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy won the Wolfson Prize and the Longman Prize, was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and H Soz Kult prizes, was an Economist book of the year, and has been translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, and Bulgarian. For thirteen years he was a member of the history faculty at the University of Cambridge. In 2009, he was appointed to the academic panel charged by the Bundesfinanzministerum (Federal Finance Ministry) with writing the ministry's history in the period of the Third Reich. He has responsibility for the volume dealing with public debt.
Born in one of the unlikeliest of places-on the desk of the British High Commissioner in New Delhi, India-native British stage and film actor Ralph Lister lives happily in whatever reality he finds himself. His Audie-nominated audiobook work and best actor awards for both stage and film (2011 Grand Award and 2014 Eclipse Award, respectively) have led him into the delightfully strange worlds of the many characters he embodies in voice. Ralph has narrated more than one hundred audiobooks and directed over a dozen others, across all genres, both fiction and nonfiction. Now a U.S. citizen, Ralph shares his time between his homes in Michigan and Los Angeles, where he also continues his passion for on-camera acting. Recent film credits include roles in OZ: The Great and Powerful, Setup, Alleged, and Mickey Matson and the Pirate's Code, and his television credits include a role on the AMC crime drama Low Winter Sun.