Good intro of ww1 up until the end of 1915 Had forgotten the horrendous battles and casualties in 1914 the narrative of which are often overwhelmed by the later years 9781445680019 
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 years of slaughter physical and moral exhaustion and the near collapse of a civilization that until that moment had dominated the globe Into The Abyss.