Liaquat Ahamed's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World' delves into the complex interplay between the world's most powerful central bankers and the global financial crisis of the late 1920s. It paints an arresting portrait of four key figures - Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong - whose collective decisions regarding their countries' central banks played momentous roles in precipitating the Great Depression. Through meticulous research, Ahamed argues that these decisions, taken within the shadow of World War I and its aftermath, were pivotal to the financial chaos that ensued. As relevant now as ever, the work serves as a sobering study on the intertwining of political power, economic policy, and the far-reaching consequences they can summon, offering profound insights into the fragile webs that connect global finance.