# The World That Never Was

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- Book: [The World That Never Was](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-butterworth/the-world-that-never-was) ([The World That Never Was.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-butterworth/the-world-that-never-was.md))
- Authors: [Alex Butterworth](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-butterworth)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0738-675-5
- Pages: 544
- Published: 2011-08-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by acts of terrorism and assassination from anarchist...