INTO THE ABYSS: The Story of the First World War Volume One

First published under the title 'A World Undone' following a list of maps, chronology, major characters, part one begins June 28th 1914 and chapters cover a background to the Serbs, the Habsburgs, the Hohenzollerns, the Romanovs, the Ottoman Turks. Part two August-December 1914 Racing to Deadlock looks at the background of Paris, London, the Junkers, the French Commanders and the British Commanders and ends with Flanders Field. Part three looks at the background to the Machinery of Death, the War at Sea, Troglodytes at Ypres, an infinite appetite for shells at Gallipoli, and genocide as the ground shifts and finally Gallipoli again and Poland. Large paperback facsimile reprint of the 2006 original, 390pp, illus. A companion to Volume Two Fate of Nations code 92661.