A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period (Modern War Studies) Journalism by Richard Merry

by Richard Merry

By Geoff Dyer

a "military mess

a hard-living coal-mining town

these black Americans from New York picked up brass instruments—under the leadership of famed bandleader and lieutenant James Reese Europe—to take the musical sound of Harlem into the heart of war

A Violent Peace: A Global Military History of the Interwar Period (Modern War Studies) Journalism by Richard MerryDescription Edited by Ian Johnson and Robert Clemm Hardcover A cutting edge analysis of the interwar period as one fundamentally international in scope and deeply violent in nature. 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