Description:
Professor Marco Rimanelli's book (80% authored, 20% edited with 13 interdisciplinary academics) on the Centennial of World War I to Today, 2014-2020s offers to all types of readers a different, broad, Interdisciplinary overview of its multi-faceted tragic history and long-term legacy on recent conflicts from World War II to today.
1) World War I key diplomatic-military events (Great Powers' Balance of Power; rival alliances; war-fronts);
2) lesser-known regional issues (U.S.A.; Italy; Japan; China; Turkey; Arab Revolt, Anglo-French Middle East Imperialism; Zionism; Greece; Ireland; war-crimes trials; Mandates; League of Nations);
3) forgotten wartime roles (Pope Benedict XV mediations), literature (Anglo-Canadian-American Trench-Poetry), cinema (British pioneering war-propaganda film), U.S. segregated Black military in both World Wars, medicine (wartime surgery; Great Influenza pandemic's 100 million secret deaths), psycho-sociology (wartime traumas) and Veterans' testimonials;
4) long-term geo-political impacts (World War II; Cold War U.S. Soviet SuperPowers: Post-Cold War Pax Americana; renewed fears of World War ill by Putin's Russia vs. NATO enlargements and Ukraine).