Paul Ham: 1914 the Year the World Ended [2014] hardback CLASS Kathy McKeon was just nineteen

Kathy McKeon was just nineteen years old and newly arrived from Ireland when she was hired as the personal assistant to former first lady Jackie Kennedy

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Paul Ham: 1914 the Year the World Ended [2014] hardback CLASS Kathy McKeon was just nineteenIn August 1914, the European powers plunged 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 world on course for the bloodiest century in human history. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, Ham takes the reader on a journey into the labyrinth, to reveal the complexity, the layered motives, the flawed and disturbed minds that drove the