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The Ghost at the Feast
by Robert Kagan
America and the collapse of world order 1900–1941: the rise, the retreat after Versailles, the price paid. Volume two, long and absorbing.
Read it if…
you want the interwar lesson in full.
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Skip it if…
you want a short read.
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Three things you will actually use
- Retreat invited catastrophe.
- Power creates responsibility.
- History rhymes.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the 1920s.
Our verdict
Kagan's interwar.
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