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

June 17, 2019: 4-6 pm at the Jeff Center in the Old Ashland Armory

The Jefferson Center Book Group meets on the third MONDAY of the month, 4-6 pm, at The Jefferson Center, in the Old Ashland Armory at 208 Oak Street, suite 101.

A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G. J. Meyer (2007).

From Amazon:
"Drawing on exhaustive research, this remarkable, intimate account tells the story of how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.

On 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."