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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.
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`Thundering, magnificent ... a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure. Researched to the last possible dot ... It will earn generations of admirers.' -- Washington Times `A worthy counterpoint to Hew Strachan's magisterial three-volume scholarly project, The First World War.' -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) `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 ... [Into the Abyss] has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured.' -- Los Angeles Times `A masterful narrative history that eloquently conveys the sense of a civilization engaged in massive self-destruction ... Meyer offers interesting and controversial insights into the motivations of many of the key participants. This is an outstanding survey of a cataclysm that still casts a shadow over world affairs.' -- Booklist
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- PublisherAmberley Publishing
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1445680017
- ISBN 13 9781445680019
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages416
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