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A World Undone
ISBN
9780440335870
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
30-05-2006
Bindwijze
Ebook EPUB
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Random House Publishing Group
Auteur(s)
G. J. Meyer

A World Undone

G. J. Meyer
Leesfragment
€8,99
  • **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
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • [A
  • World
  • Undone]
  • is
  • a
  • book
  • of
  • true
  • greatness
  • that
  • prompts
  • moments
  • of
  • sheer
  • joy
  • and
  • pleasure.
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • It
  • will
  • earn
  • generations
  • of
  • admirers.”—The
  • Washington
  • Times**On
  • 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.Praise
  • for
  • A
  • World
  • Undone“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.
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • [A
  • World
  • Undone]
  • 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.”—Steve
  • Gillon,
  • resident
  • historian,
  • The
  • History Channel
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