Between chapters, Meyer includes short essays on things like the Romanovs, the U-boat menace, and the evolution of the machine gun.
"The war was a long-delayed explosion of a world that had become too complex for its own political systems." A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 191...
It’s a 700+ page commitment, but it reads like a thriller. If you want to understand the 20th century, you have to understand the Great War, and there is no better starting point than this. Have you read any other WWI histories, or Between chapters, Meyer includes short essays on things