{"product_id":"9780786744626","title":"World War One: A Short History","description":"The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the twentieth—and then, at Versailles, cast Europe on the path to World War II as well.\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eWorld War One\u003c\/i\u003e, Norman Stone, one of the world's greatest historians, has achieved the almost impossible task of writing a terse and witty short history of the war. A captivating, brisk narrative, \u003ci\u003eWorld War One\u003c\/i\u003e is Stone's masterful effort to make sense of one of the twentieth century's pivotal conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108059398384,"sku":"9780786744626","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780786744626_p0.jpg?v=1763666371","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780786744626","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}