A Summer Day in Bosnia-Herzegovina 100 Years Ago
Posted by Sgt. Mom on 29th June 2014 (All posts by Sgt. Mom)
This weekend marks the hundredth anniversary of the incident which was the spark that set off the cataclysm of the First World War. Which wasn’t, strictly speaking, the first world-wide war; it could be argued that the Napoleonic Wars were, and the interminable European war between France and England which spilled over into those colonies in the North American continent could also be considered a world war.
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