Press enter after choosing selection

A World Undone : : the Story of the Great War, 1914-1918

Meyer, G. J., 1940- Book - 2007 940.3 Me None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

Cover image for A world undone : : the story of the Great War, 1914-1918

Sign in to request

Location & Checkout Length Call Number Checkout Length Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor
4-week checkout
940.3 Me 4-week checkout Due 05-12-2024

Previously published in hardcover by Delacorte Press in 2006.
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 29 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 ther German army (The gardeners of Salonika) -- The sign of the defeated -- Postwar: the fate of men and nations.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Library Journal Review
CHOICE Review
Booklist Review
Publishers Weekly Review
Summary / Annotation
Table of Contents
Excerpt
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

No community reviews. Write one below!

Cover image for A world undone : : the story of the Great War, 1914-1918


PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Bantam Dell, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xxxvi, 777 pages : illustrations, maps ; portraits ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0553382403
9780553382402

SUBJECTS
World War, 1914-1918.