Einstein's War

Einstein's WarDescription by Matthew Stanley Paperback Einsteins War is a riveting exploration of both the beauty of scientific creativity and enduring horrors of human nature. These two great forces battle in a story that culminates with a victory now a century old, the mind bending theory of general relativity. Few recognize how the Great War, the industrialized slaughter that bled Europe from 1914 to 1918, shaped Einsteins life and work. While Einstein never

his diaries cover the full extent of American participation in the war

From April to November of 1919

the first comprehensive survey of this exciting new field

This expertly handcrafted replica of a trench gas alarm was made to exact specifications

Morbid symptoms emerged simultaneously from the decay of World War I: progress and innovation were everywhere met with increasing racism and xenophobia

and revolutionized how we see the world

and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands of casualties all contributed to the "great war

by Helen Rappaport

all whilst worrying about their men folk who were away fighting a war in some foreign clime

elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War

sometimes with devastating consequences

poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War