German Revanchism: Bridging the World Wars

... was shattered by a shot that took the life of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and unleashed World War One. However, the assassination only provided a pretext for the future warring... ... the fundamental conflicts between the great powers. On the eve of the centennial of WWI, we spoke with military historian Sergey Chernyavsky , Director of the Russian... ... reality, there are three factors to speak of. First are the excessive ambitions of Germany that from the very start had been propped up by military, economic and political...