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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, kill

Combines "an examination of principal battles and crucial turning points with a wider discussion of the European and global significance of war."--Cover.

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