On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world - from Adam Tooze, the Wolfson Prize-winning author of The Wages of Destruction

In the depths of the Great War, with millions of dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. As the cataclysmic battles continued, a new world was being born.Adam Tooze's extraordinary new book is a truly global history from 1916 to the 1920s. It shows how the war and its aftershocks completely reshaped country after country, leaving politicians to battle with circumstances unimaginable before 1914. New ideologies took over entire nations, empires which had lasted since the Middle Ages collapsed in ruins and an entirely new architecture had to be created for running the world if a second, perhaps even more terrible conflict, was to be avoided ...