Hi everyone and welcome back!

After some time away and some rethinking I have finally posted a new episode!

Come listen as I tell you about some of the incidents that happened in the lead up to the First World War. Long before Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in Sarajevo, Europe and its nations tested the limits of each other to see how far each could be pushed without blinking. There were several incidents which could easily have kick started the War years earlier but why didn't it? In this first part I have sent the scene of Europe in the period of the lates 1800s up to around 1905 with more episodes coming soon to cover the rest of the period up to and including the start of the First World War. I will discuss as I progress why Europe did not go over the brink before 1914 and why in the end they did. So join me to go over the sparks that would eventually lit the fuse that sparked the powder keg of Europe.