Review: more like half an hour
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2012
A very brief history of a complex war that focuses mostly on a few key personalities.Personally, I have always thought that the assassination of the arch duke that is generally regarded as having ignited the war is given more importance than what it really earned. I suspect that any excuse would have set off war eventually. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was collapsing in on itself and they were looking for any excuse at all to start a war, as that is often seen as a way to stave off other disasters, although it does not usually work out that way in the end.The German Empire was looking for a fight as well, and the French were in deep political trouble, and so were the Russians. It was just a bad time all around.It did not provide much more than a synopsis of bits and pieces of what went on, but that is really all it promised. A freebie I got not long ago.