TY - SOUND AU - Ham, Paul, AU - Meldrum, Robert, TI - 1914: the year the world ended SN - 9781486204649 U1 - 940.28 23 CY - Tullamarine, Victoria PB - Bolinda Audio KW - History, Modern KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Causes KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - Europe KW - History KW - 1871-1918 KW - Audiobooks N1 - Read by Robert Meldrum N2 - 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 ER -