As historian Barbara Tuchman memorably observed in “The Guns of August”, World War I was the conflict no-one wanted but erupted nonetheless as powers sleepwalked into hostilities by underestimating the will of rivals to risk war. “One constant among the elements of [war] was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for […]
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