Long Shadow

David Reynolds shows how the common perception of the Great War as futile slaughter has been molded over time.

David Reynolds examines the intriguing paradox of the Great War - that it was not caused by profound political or ideological divisions, but created them in its wake.

David Reynolds argues that the Great War made national identity a stark either-or issue, a matter of "us" versus "them." He traces recurrent struggles and nationalist uprisings due to empire-building by Hitler, Stalin and, latterly, the European Union in the century since 1914.