has the very best qualities for this kind of comprehensive approach: a gift for compression and an eye for the telling detail.' - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Meyer organizes his book chronologically, and accompanies each chapter with a short background essay.

'This is one of those books where you read every page. ' A World Undone is an original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century. With an historians eye for clear headed analysis and a storytellers talent for detail and narrative, G.J Meyer presents a compelling account of the blunders that produced the world's first 'great war' and set the stage for many of the tragic events that followed.' -Steve Gillon, Resident Historian, The History Channel

“An original and very readable account of one of the most significant and often misunderstood events of the last century.” -Steve Gillon, resident historian, The History Channel has an instructive value that can scarcely be measured” - Los Angeles Times

His account of the tragic folly of Gallipoli is masterful. “Meyer’s sketches of the British Cabinet, the Russian Empire, the aging Austro-Hungarian Empire. 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. 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. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. It will earn generations of admirers.” -The Washington Times is a book of true greatness that prompts moments of sheer joy and pleasure.

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.

A World Undone by G.J. Meyer