by Dan Jones
First published 2020
It's 1914 and the old world is ending. From the shattered Austro-Hungarian Empire to the rise of Soviet Russia, nations are collapsing and new powers are seizing control. As competing visions of the future battle for supremacy, ordinary people are swept up in a maelstrom of violence and upheaval. Against this backdrop of global chaos, individual lives are torn apart and remade. The World Aflame is a sweeping chronicle of the cataclysmic changes that defined the early 20th century.
Genres: history, 20th-century, political-science, world-history, 21st-century, military-history
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: epic, sweeping
Setting: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Soviet Russia
Period: 1914
384 pages · Kindle Edition · Pegasus Books
Content warnings: violence, war