... sides in the inevitable conflict. The stakes had blown up to well outside the boundaries of the Austro-Serbian squabbles, and the Crisis of July turned into world war - thirty short days after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. By 1914, Europe had come to be divided into two rival groups of heavily armed powers. With the frowth of military machines there ... ...

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