A Violent Peace

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>World War I destroyed the world that had come before. It shattered three empires and fueled new nationalisms and ideologies that threatened to destroy those that remained. It left millions in its wake with military training and access to weaponry creating networks of violence that would spread across much of the globe. This violence in the interwar period resulted in more deaths than during the Great War most of them outside of Europe.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>While studies of the First and Second World Wars have become more international and interconnected our understanding of the interwar period remains dominated by national narratives. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>A Violent Peace</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> offers a new perspective stretching across four continents and drawing together a multitude of conflicts large and small: from the Spanish Civil War to the Wewel Incident in Ethiopia; from the small RAF force involved in Somaliland to the hundreds of thousands in the Chinese Nationalist Encirclement Campaigns; from the conflicts surrounding newly formed states in the Polish-Soviet War to a settling of much older accounts in South America. The themes and patterns from this global era are drawn together in a cohesive analysis including key studies on the utilization of technology the growing importance of ideology and how the Great War shaped the nature of these conflicts.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>A Violent Peace</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> provides a fresh angle on a tumultuous era and challenges readers to reconsider their preconceived ideas about the interwar period.</span></p>