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A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation. Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent. But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend--Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among them--and sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed, particularly the contributions of geography and technology. No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect. He acquaints us with the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophe--from heads of state like Russia's hapless tsar, Nicholas II, to renowned warmakers such as Haig, Hindenburg and Joffre. But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded--\"the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable.\" By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation ex-tended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kx6pa0fy2z5h4jewrhsmzd58.jpg?v=8fe3a6cc60","LxJa+TRjWCj@_Noef5fQRka}j[az",475,[602],{"id":603,"slug":604,"name":605},"01kjz5gcph7kb7g8ry3acfae4f","john-keegan-llsa","John Keegan",[607,611,612,613],{"id":608,"name":609,"slug":610,"is_fiction":20},54,"World War II","world-war-ii",{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":21},{"id":582,"name":583,"slug":584,"is_fiction":21},{"id":578,"name":579,"slug":580,"is_fiction":20},[],{"pace":265,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":616,"themes":617,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[267,59,156],[],{"key":619,"params":620,"works":621},"genre_mood",{"genre":36,"mood":58},[622,642,665,686,732,765],{"id":623,"slug":624,"title":625,"description":626,"primary_cover_url":627,"cover_blurhash":628,"first_publish_year":278,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":18,"page_count":629,"authors":630,"genres":635,"series":638,"enrichment":639},"01kx6p2kj3qmj205hsa17c5jv5","europe-macm","Europe","Europe: A History is Norman Davies's single-volume account of the continent from prehistory through the fall of the Soviet Union. 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Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred Carroll’s imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. It also explains why Alice in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era and why, a century and a half later, they continue to enthrall and delight readers of all ages. The Story of Alice reveals Carroll as both an innovator and a stodgy traditionalist, entrenched in habits and routines. He had a keen double interest in keeping things moving and keeping them just as they are. (In Looking-Glass Land, Alice must run faster and faster just to stay in one place.) Tracing the development of the Alice books from their inception in 1862 to Liddell’s death in 1934, Douglas-Fairhurst also provides a keyhole through which to observe a larger, shifting cultural landscape: the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood, murky questions about sex and sexuality, and the relationship between Carroll’s books and other works of Victorian literature. In the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era, Douglas-Fairhurst shows, Wonderland became a sheltered world apart, where the line between the actual and the possible was continually blurred.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx29qk93fjpmr4x0mc7ydpta.jpg?v=a627513225","LsPP.9j[~oxtWBa|t6ay^*oeD*ay",492,[651],{"id":652,"slug":653,"name":654},"01kx29qk8y04cdvt3xnjpbqg2v","robert-douglas-fairhurst-giq2","Robert Douglas-Fairhurst",[656,657],{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":21},{"id":658,"name":659,"slug":660,"is_fiction":20},220,"Victorian","victorian",[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":663,"themes":664,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[58,59],[],{"id":666,"slug":667,"title":668,"description":669,"primary_cover_url":670,"cover_blurhash":671,"first_publish_year":672,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":18,"page_count":673,"authors":674,"genres":679,"series":682,"enrichment":683},"01kpqwq7z3ym2dvmy7g7tx34e8","passionate-sage-p5ul","Passionate Sage","John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and its second president, spent nearly the last third of his life in retirement grappling with contradictory views of his place in history and fearing his reputation would not fare well in the generations after his death. In an incomplete autobiography, and in numerous publications and voluminous correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and many others, he argued and railed against those who disagreed with him or made little of his contribution to our country's political foundations. And indeed, future generations did slight him, elevating Jefferson and Madison to lofty heights with Washington while Adams remained way back in the second tier. Now, in a witty, clear, and thoughtful narrative of Adams's later life at his home in Quincy, Joseph Ellis explores the mind and personality of the man as well as the earlier events that shaped his thinking. Readers will discover Adams to be both contentious and lovable, generous and petty, and the most intellectually profound of the revolutionary generation, a man who may have contributed to the earlier underestimates of his role in history, and whose perspective on America's prospects has relevance for us today.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kpqwq81f2a4zdkq20zhxbfc2.jpg","L#L}1xayWBj[~qj[%Mj[nNof%Mof",1993,283,[675],{"id":676,"slug":677,"name":678},"01kjv3zms2yw0fjgdzvbc4p399","joseph-j-ellis-irea","Joseph J. 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This work delves into the artistic techniques, historical context, and thematic elements present in the masterpiece. 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As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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Born in splendor difficult to imagine today, she endured a lifetime of relentless tragedy with courage and exceptional powers of adjustment. The Last Grand Duchess is a valuable account of the final decades of the house of Romanov as seen through the eyes of its last surviving member. Through Olga, we meet Queen Victoria, George V of England, Rasputin, Mrs. Anderson - on whose story the movie Anastasia was made - and other impostors who plagued the exiled duchess with false hope. In this official memoir, Ian Vorres captures the loneliness and violence of Olga's years in Russia, her loveless first marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, her years of exile in England and Denmark, and her final settlement with her second husband and family in Canada.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nb389wtpv472vsskg8f5w.jpg?v=8f7818a0d3","LBLymSE1Q8rt4mRi%MxvY+xb*0xu",1964,[834],{"id":835,"slug":836,"name":837},"01kx6nb384563fnrc58ymtnd9m","ian-vorres-idbg","Ian Vorres",[839,843,844,845],{"id":840,"name":841,"slug":842,"is_fiction":20},34,"Historical Romance","historical-romance",{"id":578,"name":579,"slug":580,"is_fiction":20},{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":21},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":21},[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":848,"themes":849,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[112,111],[114,850],"multiple-povs",{"id":852,"slug":853,"title":854,"description":855,"primary_cover_url":856,"cover_blurhash":857,"first_publish_year":798,"community_rating_avg":14,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":858,"authors":859,"genres":868,"series":873,"enrichment":874},"01kx6nsge3ekzh6ggkj314rnmf","the-presidents-aomn","The Presidents","The Presidents collects the complete rankings from C-SPAN's Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership, the long-running poll in which leading presidential historians and biographers rate every U.S. president across categories such as persuasive ability, moral authority, and administrative skill.\n\nBuilt from decades of interviews C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb and Susan Swain conducted with presidential biographers, the book profiles each of the 43 men who had served as president at the time of the 2017 survey, ordering them from the highest-ranked (Abraham Lincoln) to the lowest (James Buchanan). Each chapter runs roughly a dozen pages, combining basic biography with the historians' reasoning for a president's placement. Contributors include historians such as Douglas Brinkley and Richard Norton Smith.\n\nDonald Trump is not included in the rankings, since his term was still in progress when the survey and book were completed, though the closing pages touch on how historians were beginning to assess his presidency.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx6nsgehp0vdqs8t12m2m6hv.jpg?v=d614774246","L15rPwWY4n.T+pjYS*RN00aIbwS6",560,[860,864],{"id":861,"slug":862,"name":863},"01kx6nsgecexnj6fqc8hggkza6","brian-lamb-q5yi","Brian Lamb",{"id":865,"slug":866,"name":867},"01kx6nsged92gvzbsbys0tnt18","susan-swain-auiy","Susan Swain",[869,870,871,872],{"id":258,"name":259,"slug":260,"is_fiction":21},{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":21},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":21},{"id":132,"name":133,"slug":134,"is_fiction":21},[],{"pace":7,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":875,"themes":876,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[267,59],[],{"id":878,"slug":879,"title":880,"description":881,"primary_cover_url":882,"cover_blurhash":883,"first_publish_year":278,"community_rating_avg":884,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":7,"authors":885,"genres":890,"series":893,"enrichment":894},"01kx2a91wdrsvq8m8cab2zp44t","thoughts-from-walden-pond-by-henry-david-thoreau-rfnd","Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau","This contribution to European historical literature--based on extensive research in Madrid--provides a clear and dispassionate account of successive ecclesiastical-secular conflicts and controversies, and deftly summarizes the diverse ideological and intellectual currents of the times. Nowhere in Europe has the Roman Catholic Church exerted a more mystical hold on the life of a nation than it has in Spain. Yet this hold has not been unchanging or unchallenged. By the mid-eighteenth century the Church was no longer the only legitimate source of authority, the all-pervasive presence that it had been, most forcefully in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Still, its power remained formidable. The Spanish Church imposed standards of conduct over the entire range of society, from the aristocracy to the peasant masses, and it possessed the material resources necessary to maintain an elaborate ecclesiastical network that influenced every aspect of Spanish life. The heart of the book deals with the reactions of the Church to the dramatic, sometimes violent, changes that occurred during the critical nineteenth-century period of national transition from royal absolutism to popular liberalism. The study examines the responses of the Church to the new social and political forces that could no longer be excluded or contained, among them an emergent secular--even anticlerical--culture and a developing capitalism.Callahan demonstrates that these changes engendered resentments and frustrations deep within the ecclesiastical order that persisted well into the twentieth century, notably with the Spanish Church's embrace of Franco.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Fworks\u002F01\u002F01kx2a91wdrsvq8m8cab2zp44t.jpg?v=40f5ef3581","LwKSg$WDoKxW~8jHR+WV%JWCsmWp","1.00",[886],{"id":887,"slug":888,"name":889},"01kjqz7rn338hakt9x7rffhvn0","henry-david-thoreau-lynz","Henry David Thoreau",[891,892],{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":21},{"id":469,"name":470,"slug":471,"is_fiction":21},[],{"pace":53,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":895,"themes":896,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[59,590],[],{"id":898,"slug":899,"title":900,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":901,"cover_blurhash":902,"first_publish_year":903,"community_rating_avg":14,"community_rating_count":15,"page_count":7,"authors":904,"genres":909,"series":912,"enrichment":913},"01kx2cs38jh9peyvvp092mvgcr","secretariats-meadow-the-land-the-family-the-legend-dl56","Secretariats Meadow The Land The Family The Legend","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2cs392ga7gp1ptshwaatfs.jpg?v=1c208170c2","L9Dj-H100i}r1g=H,?NuJU$$NGEh",2010,[905],{"id":906,"slug":907,"name":908},"01kx2cs38ye18gx0521px6vb28","wayne-dementi-rkd5","Wayne Dementi",[910,911],{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":21},{"id":31,"name":32,"slug":33,"is_fiction":21},[],{"pace":265,"complexity":7,"audience":56,"mood":914,"themes":915,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[306,239],[],[917],{"id":918,"slug":919,"title":920,"user":921,"work_id":4,"is_draft":21,"verified_reader":20,"featured":21,"body":928,"overall_rating":929,"depth":7,"momentum":7,"atmosphere":7,"craft":7,"impact":7,"spice":7,"spoiler_level":930,"locale":7,"feed_item_key":931,"like_count":18,"comment_count":18,"top_likers":932,"viewer_can_reply":21,"created_at":933,"updated_at":933},"01kx6ndaq9sgd4bfzzxz9ymp38","review-of-natashas-dance-by-isabella","Review of \"Natasha's Dance\" by isabella",{"id":922,"name":923,"username":924,"avatar_url":925,"is_system":21,"published_reviews_count":926,"books_read_count":927},638,"Isabella","isabella","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Favatars\u002F638.webp?v=1783709621",269,276,"Reads like a tragedy. You can’t help but feel a sort of sadness for what this culture and it’s figures went through. But I suppose that strengthens the culture, no?",5,"none","rv-01kx6ndaq9sgd4bfzzxz9ymp38",[],"2026-07-10T18:42:33.000000Z"]