Book of The Month: "A World Undone" by G.J. Meyer
Editor’s Note: My dear friend, Brian Bowers, enjoys many occupations. One is working with the World War I museum in Kansas City, MO. One day, I asked him “if I wanted to better understand WWI, what book should I read?”. This book was his answer. It’s a better read if you are a serious history buff, which I am not, but I was dumbfounded by the depth of the communication disasters that caused this, the war that altered international geopolitics perhaps more than any other.
Excerpt:
“People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was a fight to the death with the forces of evil, and the stakes were survival and civilization itself. It is no simple thing to make people believe such things and later persuade them to accept a settlement based on compromise.”