TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meyer,G.J.
TI  - A world undone: the story of the Great War, 1914-1918 
SN  - 9780553803549
AV  - D 521 M612w 2006
U1  - 940.3 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Delacorte Press
KW  - 20150700
KW  - Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [649]-657) and index; pt. 1. July 1914: into the abyss --  June 28: the black hand descends (The Serbs) --  Never again (The Hapsburgs) --  Setting fire to Europe (The Hohenzollerns) --  July 25 to 28: secrets and lies (The Romanovs) --  July 19 to 31: fear is a bad counselor (The Ottoman Turks) --  Saturday, August 1: Leaping into the dark --  pt. 2. August-December 1914: Racing to Deadlock --  The iron dice roll (Paris in 1914) --  First blood (London 1914) --  A perfect balance (The junkers) --  To the Marne (The French commanders) --  Back from the Marne (The British Commanders) --  Flanders fields --  pt. 3. 1915: A zero-sum game --  The search for elsewhere (The machinery of death) --  The Dardanelles (The sea war) --  Ypres again (Troglodytes) --  Gallipoli (An infinite appetite for shells) --  The ground shifts (Genocide) --  Gallipoli again, and Poland, and ... --  pt. 4. 1916: bleeding to death --  Verdun: preparation (Old wounds unhealed) --  Verdun: execution (The living dead) --  Verdun metastasizes (Airships and landships) --  Maelstrom (The Jews of Germany) --  The Somme (Farewells, and an arrival at the top) --  Exhaustion --  pt. 5. 1917: things fall apart --  Turnips and submarines (Consuming the future) --  A new defense, and a new offense (Hearts and minds) --  Revolution and intevention (The Cossacks) --  The Nivelle offensive (The war and poetry) --  Wars without guns (Enter the tiger) --  Passchendaele --  pt. 6. 1918: The last throw of the dice --  Going for broke (Kaiser Wilhelm II) --  Entangling misalliances (Lawrence of Arabia) --  Michael (Ludendorff) --  An impossibly complex game (The women) --  The black day of the German army (The gardeners of Salonika) --  The sign of the defeated --  Postwar: the fate of men and nations
N2  - A narrative of the First World War examines the brutal conflict that transformed the face of Europe, paved the way for the rise of the Soviet Union and Hitler, and had repercussions that even today affect the stability of the Middle East and the Balkans
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