{"product_id":"a-world-undone-the-story-of-the-great-war-1914-to-1918","title":"A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - 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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Thundering, magnificent . . . [\u003ci\u003eA World Undone\u003c\/i\u003e] is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. . . . It will earn generations of admirers.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Washington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. 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. 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eA World Undone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Meyer's sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire . . . are lifelike and plausible. His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. . . . [\u003ci\u003eA World Undone\u003c\/i\u003e] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.\"\u003cb\u003e--Steve Gillon, resident historian, \u003ci\u003eThe History Channel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\r","brand":"G. J. Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44442423951596,"sku":"9780553382402","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780553382402.jpg?v=1718610625","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/a-world-undone-the-story-of-the-great-war-1914-to-1918","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}