has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured -Los Angeles Times An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, The World Remade: American in. Book by Meyer GJ 'Sinopsis' puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. Meyer (born 1940), author and journalist, is a writer of historical non-fiction. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 de Meyer, G. Praise for A World Undone Meyer's sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War: four long years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until 1914 had dominated the globe. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. The Washington Times On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of our modern world Thundering, magnificent.

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