The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (TRIH ep 473, part 5)
1914 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History narrates the climactic days of the July Crisis in July 1914, tracing how diplomatic parries and private royal telegrams accelerated toward general war. Holland and Sandbrook discuss the Kaiser’s holiday paperwork, the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum and its expiry, and divergent plans in Vienna, Berlin and St. Petersburg.
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