Jan 01, 2013
During the early 20the century belle Epoque, after a century of relatively peaceful social progress, nobody in Europe, with its intensely intermarried dynasties, imagined the continent was heading for an arguably unprecedented inferno, although the constellation of defensive alliances was a recipe for the Great War. The Sarejevo murder by a Serbian nationalist of the Austrian heir to the imperial throne sparkled a series war declarations opposing the German-Hansburg axis to an Anglo-Franco-Russian-based coalition. The quick victory everybody expected within months ...