
1914
The Year The World Ended
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Narrado por:
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Robert Meldrum
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Paul Ham
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did.
In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history.
In the longer run, the events of 1914 set the world on the path toward the Russian Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of Nazism and the Cold War.
In 1914: The Year the World Ended, award-winning historian Paul Ham tells the story of the outbreak of the Great War from German, British, French, Austria-Hungarian, Russian and Serbian perspectives. Along the way, he debunks several stubborn myths.
European leaders, for example, did not stumble or ‘sleepwalk' into war, as many suppose. They fully understood that a small conflict in the Balkans - the tinderbox at the heart of the continent - could spark a European war. They well knew what their weapons could do. Yet they carried on. They accepted - and, in some cases, even seemed to relish - what they saw as an inevitable clash of arms. They planned and mapped every station on the path to oblivion. These pied pipers of the apocalypse chose war in the full knowledge that millions would follow, and die, on their orders.
1914: The Year the World Ended seeks to answer the most vexing question of the 20th century: Why did European governments decide to condemn the best part of a generation of young men to the trenches and four years of slaughter, during which 8.5 million would die?
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
When they say this is 'unabridged', they mean it!! You get 22+ hours of details. I couldn't bear it. There's got to be a happy medium between this and a Readers Digest version of the Great War.Would you ever listen to anything by Paul Ham again?
Yes. But would get the abridged version.Did the narration match the pace of the story?
Yes - both a bit dull, given the content.Was 1914 worth the listening time?
No.Historically Detailed - ad nauseum
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I like how the author almost humanizes nations as beings. Like the way he talks about Germany feeling inferior and that that psychology does as a motivator on the global stage. I think these types of factors matter and help explain how and why the war started.
This book helped me understand the modern world way better. I feel like it's impossible to understand the world we live in today without understanding WW1. This book made it all relatable and understandable.
One of my favorite books
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"1914" cites both explicitly, in a text lacking any of the features that made those books interesting to read or discuss.
(Meldrum is an excellent narrator, but struggles terribly with foreign words. Bless him, he tried.)
Unlimited simulacreage to colonize
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keep your opinion out of it
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Garbage
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