I’m not a history buff, and all I know is that his death set off a Rube Goldberg machine of Politics that led to everyone fighting everyone else. Can someone simplify it for me?
I’m not sure the war took people by surprise, although the precise chain of events must have. Novels predicting a war between the UK and Germany had been popular in Britain for years — even Saki (H.H. Munro), a comedy-of-manners specialist, published one.
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