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Podcast: World War 1 Stories & Real Battles
Episode: July Crisis - [World War 1 & Real War Battles] WW1
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In the early summer of 1914, Europe was a continent on the brink. The great powers of the day, bound by a complex web of alliances and rivalries, were locked in an escalating arms race, their populations stirred by nationalist fervor and their leaders gripped by a sense of impending crisis. The spark that would ignite this volatile mix came on June 28, in the city of Sarajevo, when a young Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip fired the shots that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.Â
This singular act of violence set in m...