{"product_id":"9780553382402","title":"A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on exhaustive research, this remarkable, intimate account tells the story of how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026624921840,"sku":"9780553382402","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780553382402_p0.jpg?v=1763718066","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780553382402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}