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

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction

A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath

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 matériel reached into countries far from the fro…