Century: World War One


What will the British do?

Very few writers have given the Irish home rule crisis sufficient attention as one of the factors that enabled the outbreak of war in the summer of 1914, and yet there can be little doubt about it


Shots echoed round Europe

In the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sofia in Sarajevo, how Austria would react to the killing of the heir to the throne of the its empire was uppermost in European minds


The war to end all war

“One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”– Otto von Bismarck (1888)






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