The Origins of the First World War
Classic Pamphlet
By Bernadotte E. Schmitt, published 7th February 2014
From Peace to War
The First World War broke out suddenly and unexpectedly in midsummer 1914, following the murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Hapsburg, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, at Sarajevo, in Bosnia, on 28 June. Since no war involving the European great powers had occurred since 1871, the possibility of a general war seemed increasingly remote, at least to the man on the street...
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