The Ravaged Lands 1900-1914 is the story of Eastern Europe leading up to World War I. The story is told through the eyes of the famous, infamous, and lesser known participants of the time period. Included are the royal family's, saints, anarchists, assassins, businessmen, spies, traitors, revolutionaries, and ordinary citizens. Read of the birth of Fascism, Nazism, eugenics, genocide, and Communism. This is the first volume in a series of narratives covering the entire 20th Century of a region of great natural beauty, heroism, and treachery. In this first volume we follow the Young Turk Revolt, Romanian Peasant Revolt, First and Second Balkan Wars, Russian Revolution of 1905, and the beginning of World War I.