A Brief History of World War I
by Shi Yian
About This Novel
When poison gas and tanks tore apart the pretense of gentleman's war, the knife of the Paris Peace Conference cut out the powder keg of World War II in the contract. This atypical history of World War I uses technical details and black humor to dismantle the magical reality of the collapse of civilization. From the evaporation of medieval chivalry in chlorine-filled trenches to the spoils-sharing equation beneath the gilded tableware at Versailles, every slice of history is steeped in absurdity: a Nobel Prize winner moonlighting as a Grim Reaper, a tractor converted into a steel behemoth, and a victorious diplomat using an inkwell to fake Mount Fuji. The book uses pop culture as a scalpel, allowing arms orders to dance with TikTok memes, blending the machine-fried steaks of the Ruhr area with the air cans of the Metaverse Treaty, revealing how the rapid development of technology drags mankind into the quagmire of modernity. The old ethics that were crushed into the soil by the crawlers, the undigested hatred on the peace menu, and the deadly creations that backfired on civilization in the laboratory were all completed in a playful way. This is a historical talk show that tap-dances with a steel helmet, and every laugh oozes rusty apocalypse.
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