Into The Abyss

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 miscalc...