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The Locomotive of War

Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt


  • Bloomsbury
  • by Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the twentieth century through the eyes of five major figures. In Britain two wartime prime ministers - first David Lloyd George, later Winston Churchill - found their careers made and unmade by the unprecedented challenges they faced. In the United States, two presidents elected in peacetime - Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt - likewise found that war drastically changed their agenda.

ISBN 9781408851685 | E | PB
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Publisher Bloomsbury
ISBN 9781408851685
Author(s) Peter Clarke
Publication date January 2018
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 280 x 194 mm
Pages 432
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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Peter Clarke explores the crucial ways in which war can be seen as a prime mover of history in the twentieth century through the eyes of five major figures. In Britain two wartime prime ministers - first David Lloyd George, later Winston Churchill - found their careers made and unmade by the unprecedented challenges they faced. In the United States, two presidents elected in peacetime - Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt - likewise found that war drastically changed their agenda. And it was through the experience of war that the economic ideas of John Maynard Keynes were shaped and came to exert wide influence.