1914

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Countdown to war: How a diplomatic crisis in the Balkans led to a Europe-wide conflagration

FROM 28 JUNE 1914 TO 4 AUGUST 1914 28 June – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, having met his good friend Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany just weeks previously to discuss the tense…

Military History
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Miracle on the Marne

Graham Goodlad analyses the battle that saved Paris but initiated four years of trench warfare.

Military History
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When Europe went to war: five steps to catastrophe

‘No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening,’ wrote Winston Churchill of the world changing events that took place 110 years ago this summer, as Europe’s ‘Great Powers’ found themselves sliding inexorably towards a new type…