{"product_id":"9780553382402","title":"A World Undone","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER • 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"G. J. Meyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45893113086164,"sku":"9780553382402","price":34.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_26b82029-6d2f-46ae-8d5f-5dcfc632a1dd.jpg?v=1732345964","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780553382402","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}