A World Undone The Story of the Great War 1914-1918 by G.J. Meyer 2006 Delacorte Press Military history books

This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 2006 Delecorte Press. This copy is crisp and clean inside and out. The inside pages are crisp and clean. The binding is tight and straight. Gray hardcover boards under jacket are also near fine with barely a hint of shelf wear. The accompanying dust jacket is clean and shiny with only very light shelf wear. Medium octavo book size or 6.5" x 9.5" with 670 pages including index. Illustrated maps front and back endpapers.

A World Undone The Story of the Great War 1914-1918 by G.J Meyer is a remarkable and intimate account of World War One. The author drew on exhaustive research to bring the story of the Great War to life.
From the dust jacket; "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."
Filled unforgettable scenes of courage, tragedy, and outrage, A World Undone is an extraordinary portrait of human folly and bravery.

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