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History
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Military History
Military History of Strategy
Military History of World War I
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War & Defence Operations
World War One
WWI
Product details
- ISBN 9781445680019
- Weight: 557g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This remarkable account tells the story of how, in its first two years, the First World War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, and cracked the foundations of the world.
On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. 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 Britain as her ally.
No one could guess what lay ahead: years of slaughter, physical and moral exhaustion, and the near collapse of a civilization that until that moment had dominated the globe.
G. J. Meyer is a former Woodrow Wilson and Harvard University Fellow with an M.A. in English literature. His other books include The Tudors (Random House US/ Amberley), The Fate of Nations: The Story of the First World war, vol. 2 (forthcoming from Amberley). He lives in Goring-on-Thames.
