“A fire-eating diplomat in the Austro-Hungarian foreign
ministry called the Archduke’s murder ‘a gift from Mars’ – a wonderful excuse
to solve all problems.”
- World War One: A
Short History, by Norman Stone, page 25.
Superb and, to be quite honest, a haunting turn of phrase
found in Stone’s tidy little summation of the Great War. Since reading All Quiet on the Western Front a few weeks ago I’ve been moderately interested in
learning more about this terrible and seemingly all-but-forgotten-except-by-historians-and-history-buffs
war.
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